Rat Race

I'm glad I'm me and I'm not you

Buttoned up shirt and your polished shoes

6am waiting for the train

25 years of the same old same

I'm glad I'm me and I'm not you

Financial times and your guardian too

Never see your wife or your family

Just the other suits from the city

And I'm glad I'm me and I'm not you

You've got money but I've got truth

Spent your life, paying your dues

Looking down on me but I pity you

Oh, living in a rat race

Oh, are you a bigger rat than me

Oh, you're gonna have to move on

Cause you got nothing to improve on

Cause you're no better than me

But I'm not saying that it's wrong

You write checks and I write songs

The world needs you and the world needs me

But I know which side I'd rather be

And I'm glad I'm me and I'm not you

The life you lead and the job you do

But all I'm saying and all I see

Is your recession didn't hit me

Oh, living in a right race

Oh, are you a bigger rat than me?

Oh, you're gonna have to move on

Cause you got nothing to improve on

Cause you're no better than me