Poverty in the UK Lyrics

Wilko Wilkes

Poverty in the UK

Coming to a town near you

Ok, it's time to talk about something that bothers me

Every direction I'm looking in all I'm seeing is inequality

We're the world's sixth largest economy

And yet there's 15 million people who are living in poverty

People paying through the nose, for payday loans

And bailiffs knocking at the door trying to force them out their homes

They're crumbling and worrying and working their fingers to the bone

They're struggling and guzzling instead of picking up the phone

While the billionaires are chilling in their ivory towers

And throwing rocks at the greenhouse, abusing their powers

And sitting on businesses that are growing like flowers

When it's the people on the poverty line who are putting in all the hours

But it's not their problem, they don't even need care

They're miles away and sheltered from the damage and despair

They're sipping on Dom Perignon in gated communities

While the peasants are perishing getting no opportunities

There's children with nothing and people living on the street

Whole families going hungry cos they can't afford to eat

No wonder so many people are at the end of their tether

When they're living in awful conditions without two pennies to rub together

What's happening is criminal, provision is minimal

It's hard to be happy or anything other than cynical

We're on a course for collision and it's creating division

And the only thing that makes sense is to

Keep on trying to breathe and do your best in a world you know is rotten to the core

Just keep on, trying to breathe

And do your best in a world you know is rotten to the core

So who do you blame? You blame the poor

The people that have cracked cos they couldn't take it anymore

The addicts the prostitutes, the dealers the sharks

The disabled alcoholics sleeping on benches in the parks

The people stuck on benefits, unable to graft

The refugees and immigrants in terrible predicaments

That are fleeing on their own

From war torn zones and trying cross the English channel on a makeshift raft

The unemployed people praying for skills

The people pushed to the precipice by the pressure of paying their bills

But do you contemplate what drove them there

And all the structural negligence that has froze them there

You've conjured up billions by getting people into debt

And now Universal is the only credit that they'll ever get

People are drowning when they used to be paddling

Suicides are rising and the numbers are staggering

There's seven million carers getting thanks not finance

We're failing the frail and feeding families from food banks

There's real life zombies battling crippling addictions

And instead of getting help with it they're picking up convictions

It's a messed up sandwich from the top to the bottom

The bread is lost and forgotten

And now the filling is rotten

We're going downhill faster than a toboggan

And the only thing that makes sense is to

Keep on trying to breathe and do your best in a world you know is rotten to the core

Just keep on, trying to breathe and do your best in a world you know is rotten to the core

So when I think of all the money getting frittered like litter

I get a little bit bitter and I don't know what to say

We've gotta look out for each other we've gotta be sisters and brothers

If we're united then there's nothing that can get in our way

But when you hit rock bottom and you're down on your luck

You always feel like you're stuck

And you've stopped giving a chuff, it's rough

But anything that you can do is enough

Gotta keep your pecker and you're chin up when the going gets tough

Whoever you are there's gonna be people that love you

That can help you with the problems that are lurking above you

Reach out, speak up, for the people that need you

Put your energy and effort into something that feeds you

Make sure that it's yourself that you're doing it for

And don't settle for less when you're entitled to more

You've gotta do what you can to get back up off the floor

I know I've said it before

But just

Keep on trying to breathe and do your best in a world you know is rotten to the core

Just keep on, trying to breathe and do your best in a world you know is rotten to the core

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