Full lyrics:
I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day
Overtime hours for bullshit pay
So I can sit out here and waste my life away
Drag back home and drown my troubles away
Alright...fine start...pay sucks gotta get home and drink up classic fare!
It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is
"things used to be so much better...." okay veering slightly into something...
Livin' in the new world
With an old soul
These rich men north of Richmond, Lord knows they all
Just wanna have total control
Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
And they don't think you know, but I know that you do
'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end
'Cause of rich men north of Richmond
Tax complaints !
I wish politicians would look out for miners
And not just minors on an island somewhere
Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat
And the obese milkin' welfare
I'm not sure what the "minors on an island" is referencing at all beyond potential Epstein implications but that may be reading too far into it. Just US foreign aid in general, look domestic instead? Okay...sure. And then bam "people are starving but fatties are abusing the welfare system." Wild leap.
Well, God, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds
Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds
Young men are puttin' themselves six feet in the ground
'Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin' them down
One of the worst verses I ever recall in a song. Truly stupid and doesn't make any coherent point whatsoever.
Overall...pretty clear cut far right angle with some dog whistles worst case. Best case, a white guy whining about how the world is so hard these days and it used to be so good - fat people ruined it for everybody.
I'd give it a 1.2/10