intro:hard work for no appreciation / gutterbound with a government education / it's up to us to save this nation / to save this world

verse:i guess there's too many labor laws in the u.s.a / cause corporations can't afford the domestic rates / 12 cents an hour for the starving kids and a college education leaves you debted and jobless / what's a person got to do to earn a living wage

chorus:i don't want to be poor, i don't want to be ignorant anymore / i don't want to be poor, i don't want to be ignorant anymore / burn down the bridge, piss on the ashes / live like a rebel til the black market crashes / we've got to save this world

verse:i really think we need to get our priorities straight / cause our so-called defense leaves our educators underpaid / we don't have the fundings for our public schools, but we sure have the funds to murder innocent people / just trade a couple of books for a hand grenade

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bridge:i don't want to be poor, i don't want to be ignorant anymore (x4)

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outro: we've got to save this world (x3)