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Rheostatics "Bad Time To Be Poor"

submitted by calvados

1 decade 5 years 3 months ago

Lyrics in. Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip liked the Rheostatics and this song in particular, sometimes quoting it in the middle of "Nautical Disaster".

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http://lyricwiki.org/Rheostatics:Bad_Time_To_Be_Poor

It is a bad time to be poor,
'Cause we don't give a shit no more.
If you want to go for help, don't look next door.
The line's been drawn and staked outside.

I see to trying to lay the blame
On the folks in charge who hide in shame
For growing up with an open purse,
And learning not about being alive.

Haven't I done enough to burn out?
Haven't I been there to help out?

It is a bad time to be young.
What's left to us can't be undone
Without it riding on our backs
When young and poor go hand in hand.

It is a bad time to be poor,
And feeling winter through a crack in the door.

Moving this video to calvados's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

This reminds me of the famous quote from Anatole France:

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and the poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." (Le Lys Rouge) (1894)

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