Indentured servants in the Amazon are cutting down trees –
Dilapidating forest so they’ll get some money to eat
Because there’s no other means to get the presidents
It’s evident, though, they’ll walk away with less than an Abe a piece
Man, they’re slaving in the blistering heat
So if you’re complaining about your 8-hour shift, try 15
And that’s 7 days a week –
Illiterate adolescents and men doing all they can for pitiful ends
The men can’t read, either
Sleeping’s at a minimum
Just to wake and turn the page like Mr. Seger
Rise and grind the mind to resemble the stumps
That have ended up surrounding animals that have died due to

TIMBERRRRRR

Going on from spring to winter
Never heard of internet, never heard of spinners
Born into an environment that almost guarantees loss
Try’na rise above it all and be a winner
See, the liquor is the only escape
Diluting visions of their mental prisons, sticking to diligent land rape
And man, ain’t it somethin’, that in states over the sea
People drive SUV’s in suburbs with three TV’s

...and that’s only in the front seat
Smug-pumpin’ yuppie motherfucks ignore pleads on the streets
That’s a problem in itself, but instead of givin’ a bit
I bet the whips’ll be equipped with bass that really hits
Alas, priorities lay in material gain
We’re in need of a serious change before we’re inane
It appears you’re building a fort on the tracks of a train
The same one that carries dozens of immigrants everyday
Hey, they’re losing limbs and lives for a meager chance to strive
While value over here’s only with a tagged price
And to have ice is mad cool
- Pardon! -
I think it’s cold and all wrong like dyslexic tattoo artists

Hard isn’t weaponry, holdin’ for the hell of it
Hard is being yourself and speaking something relevant
Hard is the labor goin ‘ on as I am tellin’ this
And everything I’m telling is void of any embellishing
Pelicans are eating better than some of the residents
There ain’t a sec of hesitance
The lesson is – if you’re to get one out of this –
That citizens should
Take an eye off the money and put it into a book
That’s some Food For Thought.

I’m not alright, but I'll get by
Somehow

Any way that I can.
I gotta fend for myself any way that I can.


(Love, peace, joy, and harmony)
That is what I’m looking for, and what I’m trying to get