Fellow Celebrants - Working Stiff Lyrics

All at once it had fled with the wind and
I watched it flip and flutter in the frigid air
As a thread, left for dead, never mended
Assimilates itself as fate permits it

When it lands it is free
Free to peer endlessly
Toward a sky peering back
Without ever knowing that
So it is meant for me
Said the wishful to me
Heart of gold, mind of mud
Made a mountain from a shrub

I got a tip from a friend that it's hopeless
That everything's unfair if you look close enough
That shit is bleak but it's true - it's the system
If someone's profiting then someone's suffering

What a sick parody of a democracy
Hollowed out hallowed dreams
Scoring sick subscription fees
Benefits, bled em out
Rule of law, plead it out
Public works, red is out
Punch the clock and let it out

You're a working stiff
So proud of it
You'll defend that shit
Like you're so proud of it

You're a working stiff
So proud of it
You'll defend that shit
Like you're so proud of it