White Trash Anthem

(album: Outlaw Anthems - 2002)

This is a song on the subject of class envy. Pure and simple. The "haves" versus the "have nots"

Let's go!

Have you ever prayed to the night sky
Under one of them cold street lights
Watched another stolen car drive by
Lose your hope and say "This is where I'll die"?
But you try to say you know me
But you try to say you're from my world
Well, have you ever gone to sleep to the sounds
Of the gunshots, sirens, and violence all alone?

They want to break me down
Hope I can hold my ground

Your world is MTV
Spring breaks and ecstasy
You got your hopes and you'll get your dreams
Well, that choice wasn't there for me
My world remains unseen by you
Poverty and no family
Broken homes and broken dreams
I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed

They want to break me down
I won't back down
They try to break me down
Hope I can hold my ground

I ain't your kind of white
I ain't that kind of white
Never be your kind of white
I'll never be your kind 'cause you made me outcast
I ain't your kind of white
Never been your kind of white
I ain't that kind of white
'Cause I'm a lowlife outcast piece of white trash

Let's go!

Five years on down the road
Two kids and a high paying job
Picket fence and a college degree
Well, that choice wasn't there for me
This path on which I walk
It ain't a game and it ain't all talk
This is all I ever had
This is all they ever let me have

I ain't ever been nor will I ever be
Another blind eye in society
I seen the way it was for the people like me
I seen the way it was for the families so
Have you ever prayed to the night sky?
Under one of them cold street lights?
Watched another stolen car drive by
Lost your hope and said "This is where I'll die"?

I ain't your kind of white
I ain't that kind of white
Never be your kind of white
I'll never be your kind 'cause you made me outcast
I ain't your kind of white
Never been your kind of white (No way!)
I ain't that kind of white
'Cause I'm a lowlife outcast piece of white trash

If you're offended by this song... Well I'm fucking offended by the way I had to grow up. So who's really been slighted

Let's go!

Have you ever prayed to the night sky?
Under one of them cold street lights?
Watched another stolen car drive by
Lose your hope and say "This is where I'll die"?

I never had enough money! Or enough privilege to be white! I'm white trash! And society better learn how to recognize the difference