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We should not be livin' this life like this |
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The sink is chokin' on onion skins |
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While flies give birth in our breadbins |
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Box fans exhuming humidity's wind |
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And we will be forgotten |
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In a life like this |
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In the morning the TV cheers |
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As daytime soaps become our careers |
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A lifetime messin' with the rabbit ears |
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And we're tuning into nothing |
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This ain't life like this |
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We should not be livin' this life like this |
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The mice are crazy from paint chip crumbs |
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As the iron lung of the icebox hums |
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There's cool ranch dust on our lunchtime thumbs |
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And we treat each other rotten |
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This ain't life like this |
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We're poor people |
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We're poor, we're poor |
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We walk down to the corner store |
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We walk across the sticky floor |
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We're poor people |
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We're poor, we're poor |