Absent Minded
Dear Alberta
I know you don't care about the suicide rate
but today after thinking
counting my blessings and making it to four
i want you to know that the continual rise
of rent increases isn't helping the poor
the starving
or the needy
Just another reason
to sign up to become a soldier out of desperation
and go off
to some sick war
My rent just went up 200 dollars
and last summer there was 2 shootings and four stabbings
and a drive by in my neighborhood
tell me please
why should i pay almost 700 dollars to live here?
And the sirens never stop
i think alkatraz would be more soothing of an atmosphere
I'd move if i could
but you see i cant
I'm poor
I cry myself to sleep
and the neighborhood watch i tried to set up
wouldnt call 911 for anybody
so mr hot shot
where everyone is so rich and prosperous
how am i supposed to feel
in these streets in the midst of chemical warfare of street drugs
and silent wars of this mixing pot society
that never makes american news?
I know you dont care about suicidal rates but really
why bother trying to win
when youre already set up to lose
and lose and lose
my father couldnt collect unemployment insurance
when the coal mine he worked at went under
because previously he was making too much money
so i know just as well as you youe scamming people
so what are you doing with all that tax payers money
cause its not pot holes and roads in my neighborhood
and when i was working at the gas station
where people would come in shot or stabbed
even the security that worked there knew underground
that with your plans for the future
my neighborhood was to be left out
winter's over now and spring is here
summer is on its way and soon sirtens will be all i hear
My ghetto blaster wont be screaming songs
trying to lead people out of the cold anymore
I'll open my window and shut the door and a new song I'll be booming
but like you care anymore
All winter long was one nightmare
dead bodies in the murder capital
now summer is here
and im sure im in hell
prepared to be homeless and the camels back is just about broken
ready to take matters into his own hands
do yopu understand?
Maybe if you lived here
and had drive by's in your parking lot
and the cops kept you up till 5 in the morning
filling out reports
because you were the only witness who heard the gunshots that was awoke
and not woken up
slide here
live here
see what its like
then tell me
I shoul dpay 700 dollars for this way of life
and try not to reach fpor a drink
a cigarette
a baseball bat or a knife
as you go hungry and worry about next month
yeah right
more like what's gonna happen if i fall asleep
and someone breaks into my basement suit
I know you don't care about the suicide rate
or troubled teens or poverty in a land where everyones rich off of oil
and jobs are aplenty
but what about those of us who cannot
and do not abuse the system
what about those who are sick or sdisabled that you are throwing away
I know i didnt vote because there is no such thing as democracy
and ypou are all dictatorships
in sheeps clothing
but the suicide rate
and how its going to affect those who work with the homeless and sick
those who work in the system
who voted you in
those who your cutting back
are going to turn on you
Dear Alberta
I truly don't like this country anyway but my god
learn from a fifth grade essay already
how stupid are you?
but today after thinking
counting my blessings and making it to four
i want you to know that the continual rise
of rent increases isn't helping the poor
the starving
or the needy
Just another reason
to sign up to become a soldier out of desperation
and go off
to some sick war
My rent just went up 200 dollars
and last summer there was 2 shootings and four stabbings
and a drive by in my neighborhood
tell me please
why should i pay almost 700 dollars to live here?
And the sirens never stop
i think alkatraz would be more soothing of an atmosphere
I'd move if i could
but you see i cant
I'm poor
I cry myself to sleep
and the neighborhood watch i tried to set up
wouldnt call 911 for anybody
so mr hot shot
where everyone is so rich and prosperous
how am i supposed to feel
in these streets in the midst of chemical warfare of street drugs
and silent wars of this mixing pot society
that never makes american news?
I know you dont care about suicidal rates but really
why bother trying to win
when youre already set up to lose
and lose and lose
my father couldnt collect unemployment insurance
when the coal mine he worked at went under
because previously he was making too much money
so i know just as well as you youe scamming people
so what are you doing with all that tax payers money
cause its not pot holes and roads in my neighborhood
and when i was working at the gas station
where people would come in shot or stabbed
even the security that worked there knew underground
that with your plans for the future
my neighborhood was to be left out
winter's over now and spring is here
summer is on its way and soon sirtens will be all i hear
My ghetto blaster wont be screaming songs
trying to lead people out of the cold anymore
I'll open my window and shut the door and a new song I'll be booming
but like you care anymore
All winter long was one nightmare
dead bodies in the murder capital
now summer is here
and im sure im in hell
prepared to be homeless and the camels back is just about broken
ready to take matters into his own hands
do yopu understand?
Maybe if you lived here
and had drive by's in your parking lot
and the cops kept you up till 5 in the morning
filling out reports
because you were the only witness who heard the gunshots that was awoke
and not woken up
slide here
live here
see what its like
then tell me
I shoul dpay 700 dollars for this way of life
and try not to reach fpor a drink
a cigarette
a baseball bat or a knife
as you go hungry and worry about next month
yeah right
more like what's gonna happen if i fall asleep
and someone breaks into my basement suit
I know you don't care about the suicide rate
or troubled teens or poverty in a land where everyones rich off of oil
and jobs are aplenty
but what about those of us who cannot
and do not abuse the system
what about those who are sick or sdisabled that you are throwing away
I know i didnt vote because there is no such thing as democracy
and ypou are all dictatorships
in sheeps clothing
but the suicide rate
and how its going to affect those who work with the homeless and sick
those who work in the system
who voted you in
those who your cutting back
are going to turn on you
Dear Alberta
I truly don't like this country anyway but my god
learn from a fifth grade essay already
how stupid are you?
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