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[title] => Under the rug (The Nobodies)
[time] => 2006-01-19 15:20:28
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[bodytext] => Don't give 'em what they want But what they need, Save your change, give 'em a crust of bread to eat. Dust them off and get them to their feet All they need is an opportunity Take them off these streets Dirty blankets that they spend their sleep Holding a sign proclaiming their poverty. On the pavement countin' sheep In the snow or summer heat Where they haven't bathed in weeks We all take for granted sleeping under warm bed sheets Now they're ignored by the rest of society Shackled by temptation and gave into toxicity Why do we blame them for their hard times? They had dreams but couldn't see them through Parents and children sometimes don't see eye to eye, yet we're so blind and close minded that we can't find a compromise instead of kicking them out in the middle of the night? Had the rug swept from under their feet Now their climbing to get back up to their knees Struggling with vulnerabilities And prone to contageous diseases But who's gonna pay for their vaccines? Isn't this a beautiful country? Where anyone and anything can be forgotten about with money With greed, this buys and manipulates every policy No politician takes poverty seriously until someone dies in the streets. But it's swept under the rug when the hype dies down...because their the nobodies. No child says they wanna be homeless when they grow up ...who's next to join the nobodies? How can we sever this elaborate scheme? You might think a little differently If the odds were stacked against you and you were the one standing on your knees. But...who'll be the last to join the nobodies? [comments] => 1 [counter] => 259 [topic] => 65 [informant] => gospel.apostle [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 1 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => toughstuff )
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