Blue Collar

(album: The Masses - 2014)

Just barking on the street
Swallows so she can eat
Man I'm having nine to five
But a job's to stay alive
So she can make ends meet
Is he sleeping or he's dead?
A thousand guns to his head
I'm praying under pressure
I promise I'd do better
And this time I mean it

But there's still a silver lining
(But there's still a silver ooh)
And sometimes we cannot see
(Sometimes we cannot see)
But joy comes after crying
Put your hands up to the sky and
Put your hands up to the sky
(You gotta believe ooh)

I don't know what, when or how
And it may not happen now
But joy comes after crying
Put your hands up to the sky and
Put your hands up to the sky
You gotta believe yeah

We know just what to say
Sorry no food for you today
It's embedded in our systems
And diseases, all the symptoms
Of a nation led astray
Oh, and the rich just get richer
And the weak just get weaker
Living a life we can't afford
And so we set ourselves ashore
Until we forced to become cheaper

But there's still a silver lining
(But there's still a silver ooh)
And sometimes we cannot see
(Sometimes we cannot see)
But joy comes after crying
Put your hands up to the sky and
Put your hands up to the sky
(You gotta believe ooh)

I don't know what, when or how
And it may not happen now
But joy comes after crying
Put your hands up to the sky and
Put your hands up to the sky
You gotta believe

I don't know what, when or how
And it may not happen now
But joy comes after crying
Put your hands up to the sky and
Put your hands up to the sky
You gotta believe yeah