In the Way

Wake up at the crack of dawn, break your back all day and then go home
You can't get sick again. You can't afford to be out for that long
If I died today, within a week I'd be replaced to fill the lack
You can love it all you want, your job is never gonna love you back

I'm broke as hell, but not a broken man
It seems that poverty's the only language that I'll ever understand
I'll ever understand
I'll ever understand
Lightning struck here twice, so we ran into the night

Please don't act so surprised, this is how poverty was designed
Your bosses want you kept in place, they want you kept benign
I'm tethered to the office, I will never get out of this
Dependency, like a junkie crawling back for more in my bloodstream
Cause money can't buy happiness, but poverty can't buy a goddamn thing
Yeah, money can't buy happiness, but poverty can't buy a goddamn thing
Yeah, money can't buy happiness, but poverty can't buy a goddamn thing
Yeah, money can't buy happiness, but poverty can't buy a goddamn thing

"Dress for the job you want." They said it on and on, on and on
So I put it on - the suit that they would bury me in

Tighten your belt again while apologists defend a system that is eating you alive
But there could be room for you at the top, they say
You could be middle fucking management someday
Someday, Someday, Someday
Someday, Someday, Someday, Someday
Someday, Someday, Someday, Someday
Someday, Someday, Someday, Someday

There's nothing left for anyone to say
Eventually you shrug your shoulders, roll your eyes, and say "it goes this way"
"Yeah, it just goes this way"
"Yeah, it just goes this way"
Lightning struck here twice, so we ran into the way
We ran into the way
On that day, we'll stay
A day will finally come when we'll say "enough"