It is a bad time to be poor / ‘Cause we don’t give a shit no more / if you want to go for help / don’t look next door / The line’s been drawn and staked outside

13 August 2024 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Blues

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Lyrics: Bad Time to Be Poor (Rheostatics) 1996

https://genius.com/Rheostatics-bad-time-to-be-poor-lyrics

It is a bad time to be poor
‘Cause we don’t give a shit no more
If you want to go for help, don’t look next door
The line’s been drawn and staked outside

I see to trying to lay the blame
On the folks in charge who hide in shame
For growing up with an open purse
And learning not about being alive

Haven’t I done enough to burn out?
Haven’t I been there to help out?

It is a bad time to be young
What’s left to us can’t be undone
Without it riding on our backs
When young and poor go hand in hand

It is a bad time to be poor
And feeling winter through a crack in the door