Young kids in Catholic schools
Elderly parents living under your roof
You pay the bills and you pay the price

You don't back down and you won't play nice
The disgraced values of the company man
Are why you fight and sacrifice

Don't bed or break for their one-way rules
Or run from battles you know you'll lose


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Greed is blinding you
But we can see

He's got yesterday's values
Living in tomorrow's industry


They see your eyes, they see your face
But it's your soul they wanna take
Yeah, welcome to the future it don't seem fair

But this is your struggle, the cross you bear
They know your paying, they don't think twice
There's a dollar value on your life

You don't compromise and you don't break
Yeah, it's your principles at stake


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The daily outlook it's so bleak

Saving every dollar of the week
Living month to month, you've got to get ahead
But all the while falling deeper in debt


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The weight falls hard on the stand up gy
The one you can count on you can rely
This is your future it don't seem right

But this is your battle, this is your fight
Something in this country has got to change
If we're ever gonna see those days again

Your parents may have done it with just one job
But now we're working for less and twice as hard.