Poverty in the UK

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 HAHAHAHAHA