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Please Bring Back Yesterday


I sit with my depression,my thoughts and my blahs
I don't like it the way it is, I like it the way it was,
Being able to drive all week on ten dollars of gas,to afford a movie show
Even cokes and pop corn,where did it all go ?
Paychecks lasted from week to week,now they're gone before they're cashed
We all had hopes and dreams,all that has been trashed,
Used to be when we got sick a doctor was always there
Now you have to hope for one,they want money not medicare.
So many people have lost their jobs and so many have lost their homes
It's getting hard to find a cardboard box so all they do is roam,
The parks and alley's are full,they're wearing the trails out
They're bank accounts are empty they don't qualify for a bail out.
They don't own a big car company or manufactured homes to sell
They don't wear gold or diamonds,no big bucks to make their wallets swell,
Our jobs went to other places our money followed closely behind,  
All we get are higher prices,a refusal, rejection, decline.
Let's all move overseas,follow our money where it's going
Because, brother, if we stay here we're just slowly drowning,
Please bring back yesterday when we didn't have to worry about taxes
Or worry about our social security and getting kicked in the axis.
Please bring back yesterday when we and our children didn't have to go without
When we could afford to eat and save, when we had something to smile about,
Yes, please bring back yesterday when our government was strong and good
When the man we all looked up to  did his job for us and understood.
Who got us out of the red and we didn't go in the black
Little people meant something then,that's the man we need back,
We need someone to think of our pockets not how much they can put in their own
Please,Please bring back yesterday before everything is gone.

    This is for everyone who is living on hopes and prayers.........God Bless ! Whisper







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