Yikes! by Tuesday X

This is not my scene
Know I just got here
but I need to leave
You won't understand
but I can't be seen
I just get perceived as
another parasite by society
I just wanna go home
I got nowhere to go
All the money goes
towards bombs and drones
Funding a genocide
We got enough problems going on at home

Isn't this how you wanted it?
Your perfect world; Utopia
You got your white house
Your picket fence
the Wife and Kids
Gated Neighborhood

600,000 people
looking for a place to sleep
They can't get jobs
and they can't eat
We need to get these people off of the streets
but you just hand out fines
making them serve time
They don't have a dime
How're we gonna solve anything
if their condition is painted as a crime?

Corporations inflating the cost of living
in cahoots with the Feds
Don't let it get to your heads
They pay 21%
I bet that's less than your rent
So tell me why am I going broke
just trying to buy a loaf of bread

Isn't this how you wanted it?
Your perfect world; Utopia
You got your white house
Your picket fence
The Wife and Kids
Gated Neighborhood

And the key to success
if I had to guess
has nothing to do with being the best
Just tell em what they want to hear
Then put the blame on whoever comes next
You can't trust the man in charge
Never gonna let you get too far
You know too much
and won't shut up
You know where the people are coming from

500 kids
have been victims
of gun violence at school
since 1999
What a time to be alive
They can't even get free lunches
At least the weapons are abundant
Gotta fix the propaganda
Trick more kids into enlisting

Isn't this how you wanted it?
Your perfect world; Utopia
You got your white house
Your picket fence
The Wife and Kids
Gated Neighborhood

What about my right to choose?
Was it just a game of "Snooze-or-Lose"?
It'll start with the death of Roe v Wade
Then the meaning of "Freedom" will turn more grey
Remember the last time we had a fight about state's rights?
It seems that history repeats
and no one sees or will concede

Give applause to our congress
for inviting a war criminal
to seek investors for his Holy War
Don't you know?
Your livelihood is a joke
That's what we get for letting oligarchs control

When I was a kid
I lost all of my friends to Monopoly
Now I'm losing everything
I could never keep up
with corporate greed
Everything is made overseas
Probably by slavery
Just to save a quick buck
You selfish fucks, guess what?
Gonna Eat the Rich, and You're Lunch

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