Bad Time to Be Poor

Tim Vesely

It is a bad time to be poor,

'Cause we don't give a shit no more.

If you want to go for help, don't look next door.

The line's been drawn and staked outside.

I see to trying to lay the blame

On the folks in charge who hide in shame

For growing up with an open purse,

And learning not about being alive.

Haven't I done enough to burn out?

Haven't I been there to help out?

It is a bad time to be young.

What's left to us can't be undone

Without it riding on our backs

When young and poor go hand in hand.

It is a bad time to be poor,

And feeling winter through a crack in the door.