Prohgress - Blue Collar Blues lyrics

[Hook 1] If you broke clap your hands You got less than a dub, clap your hands If you can jiggle your change, clap your hands Clap your hands, come on clap your hands [Hook 2: Mary Jane] Everything's gonna be alright Man gas prices making me work overtime Everythings gonna be OK Sleeping on the floor is better for your back anyway Everything's gonna be just fine Who needs electricity when you got the streetlights The next day the sun will still shine Even if you ain't paying your rent on time [Verse 1: J-Splif] Alarm ring so I spring out my bed Must have slept wrong theres a kink on my neck Stress of daily living thinking damn will I make it In the cold hearted world being broke it forsaken In our society money's vital like arteries Ain't no comedy when you broke and have a family It's the poverty that makes it hard to live honestly My hands getting dirty nobody respects modesty The dollar bill is the blame for mans ill The dollar bill breeds every inch of mans k** I know how it feels to be laid on them bills Make the minimum payments still the interest builds Empty out my pockets grab a fistful of lint Thinking of a hustle 'cause I gots to pay rent Through my paper and pen I pour my heart and my soul Change the situation quick 'cause I'm sick of being broke [Hook 2: Mary Jane] Everything's gonna be alright Man gas prices making me work overtime Everythings gonna be OK Sleeping on the floor is better for your back anyway Everything's gonna be just fine Who needs electricity when you got the streetlights The next day the sun will still shine Even if you ain't paying your rent on time [Verse 2: Prohgress] Yo I met this fly honey, shorty was fine Ask her for the time she was a quarter to dimes Looked her in the eye got caught up in the whirlwind Started with a look and all a sudden she my girlfriend I started taking her out But telling me about her town was all that she could talk about Days turned to weeks and I started to believe her Roads that were paved with gold, so we moved east But the moment that we got up off the airplane She looked away from me and said that everything's changed I held her close and told her baby it'll be OK Then I felt her right hand push me away Leaving me alone, I left a good thing at home Family and friends and a college education Lady liberty done had me confused So I work whistling the blue collar blues [Hook 1] If you broke clap your hands You got less than a dub, clap your hands If you can jiggle your change, clap your hands Clap your hands, come on clap your hands [Verse 3: Kev Nish] What I've been through ain't nothing new under the sun Just letting you know, that it's a new day Still struggle the same, the trouble the same Imma save every dollar 'til I make a change You know I dig through the ashtray to make that change I give a bum a dollar hope to make a change Sweat on my blue collar never see no change I pay more but my W2 still the same Politicians go past 'till the well runs dry Shells don't fly, d**h in the east paid by Hard working tax paying non voten unspoken Every day damn people the government can't notice You focus on the fact that I can't do the math Then you call us into cla** 'cause we don't finish cla** But we won't finish last broke begging for cash When I make more than you, you can kiss my a** [Hook 2: Mary Jane] Everything's gonna be alright Man gas prices making me work overtime Everythings gonna be OK Sleeping on the floor is better for your back anyway Everything's gonna be just fine Who needs electricity when you got the streetlights The next day the sun will still shine Even if you ain't paying your rent on time [Interlude] To the mom with 2 jobs 'cause daddys away Just do your thing To the bum on the freeway begging for change Just do your thing To the student working hard to pave their own way Just do your thing And if you ain't there yet but you wanna get paid Make that change [Hook 1] If you broke clap your hands You got less than a dub, clap your hands If you can jiggle your change, clap your hands Clap your hands, come on clap your hands [Outro] You wanna get that dough and get that cash You wanna make that money today You gotta get that loot and eat that food You gotta do what you do to get paid