I've been selling my soul, working all day Double time hours for bullshit pay So I can sit out here, waste my life away Drag back home and drink my troubles away It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to For people like me, for people like you Wish I could just wake up and it not be true But it is, oh it is Yeah, the media is doing its job and it's clearly working Got us arguing over what is a woman when that's just certain We distracted from the fact that average men and women hurting But they keep on saying this economy is doing perfect When I finally get ahead, Uncle Sam bring me back Caught up in this rat race, they money laundering our tax They only show you when the white cop gon' shoot a man that's black And then they'll cancel you and ban you if you start speaking facts When you can't afford your house and you can't afford a meal And politicians only care about you every four years Ignore your blood, sweat and tears, they don't care about how you feel Evil people want to see the nuclear family disappear I've been selling my soul, working all day Double time hours for bullshit pay So I can sit out here, waste my life away Drag back home and drink my troubles away It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to For people like me, for people like you Wish I could just wake up and it not be true But it is, oh it is I heard Oliver singing and like the world I felt his passion I can't do this beat justice, hope you don't mind the rapping Government officials in they mansions just laughing But the only make a hundred K a year, how'd that happen I couldn't even get to see my grandma 'fore she died 'Cause the media was pushing fear to everyone in line Kept it bottled up inside, mom and dad got fired I saw grown men locked in they house and take they lives I saw families divided, at the dinner table fighting If you didn't trust the science then you'd probably hate the climate Wear a mask, wear twelve, babies just a clump of cells A society with no regard for life is going to hell I've been selling my soul, working all day Double time hours for bullshit pay So I can sit out here, waste my life away Drag back home and drink my troubles away It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to For people like me, for people like you Wish I could just wake up and it not be true But it is, oh it is I've been selling my soul, working all day Double time hours for bullshit pay So I can sit out here, waste my life away Drag back home and drink my troubles away It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to For people like me, for people like you Wish I could just wake up and it not be true But it is, oh it is