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Above the Water

from B​-​dub - REBEL by B-dub

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Oh dem work so hard just to stay above water
At time, not even ‘nuff just to maintain
So dem go without, and dem live in squalor
Every day without bare min-i-mum, feeling the pain, say! No benefits from government, work’n hard old-fashioned way Clocking in all-of-the-hours into the system,
do right thing, earn honest pay
some may never catch a break, All their world is on the take Life falls apart with one mistake, then from the start again we make
well the tide be will turning, more people are learning, that middle class is fading, it’s away
Too much we must juggle, too hard we do must struggle, Slaving away beyond the day, that we old and gray, hey!
I try to stay above water! Tryin’ not do drown Try to stay above water! Tryin’ not to go down
The rich above water with much more than they need Separate from common man surrounding greed feeds the greed So it be constant a pressure staying rich is their need They’re not worried about food they have an ego to feed
So hard to stay above water, poor, give their all not to drown Until dem follow the flow, and find a drain to go down. The opportunity not missed, never there to be found Scraping up the bare minimum til they under the ground
So hard to stay above water in the middle class Living in between jobs with no saved up cash Paycheck has been lost but the bills don’t stop Until you’ve lost it all, one class rank you drop
(CHORUS)

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from B​-​dub - REBEL, released April 10, 2015

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