21% Lyrics

21% of the world lives on less than 3 dollars a day

That's over a billion people struggling to survive

Tw-tw-tw-twenty-one percent

Every city every town the story's the same

Some rise to power others bear the blame

The gap grows wider the struggle's real

A child cries for food a billionaire seals the deal

Tw-tw-tw-twenty-one percent

They wake and fight just to live another day

Tw-tw-twenty-one percent

Still hungry still waiting

While the one percent keeps taking

Tw-tw-twenty-one percent

They toil they bleed

While the rich count their greed

In the last 30 years the wealthiest 1% has doubled its share of the global economy

One-one-one percent takes it all

A factory worker breathes toxic air

A CEO flies in a private jet without a care

The farmer's crop is stolen by the storm

While stocks rise high in a corporate reform

They promise aid they send their checks

But it trickles down just a fraction at best

The cycle spins the machine won't stop

The twenty-one remain at the bottom not the top

Tw-tw-twenty-one percent

Still hungry still waiting

While the one percent keeps taking

Tw-tw-twenty-one percent

They toil they bleed

While the rich count their greed

We build their towers we clean their streets

Our sweat their profit our dreams incomplete

The system is broken but is change on its way?

Tw-tw-twenty-one percent

Their story isn't over yet