David Rovics - Welcome to the Working Cla** lyrics

The average annual income of the richest one percent Is about seven hundred grand The average annual income of the poorest one percent Is a couple Food Stamps and a pile of sand Smack-dab in the middle, 350 thousand, but that's actually the top four percent Most everybody else, say, in the bottom eighty Is struggling to pay their mortgage or their rent You who say you're in the middle, I wonder what you mean? In the middle of what and what? I say you're probably full of something that hopefully will soon be coming out of your bu*t I could join you in your fantasy, but I think I'll have to pa** And just say welcome to the working cla** (Verse 2) If you're wondering how you might send your kids to college If your savings is smaller than your debt If your main mode of transport is an auto or a pickup sponsored links And not a helicopter or a private jet If you drive yourself to the supermarket You know where to find the milk upon the shelf If you bring the groceries home and then you cook the food all by yourself If your idea of a night out is ordering a pizza and watching a DVD If your idea of social mobility is the fact that You have broadband and a high-definition TV You can try to convince me that you're in the bourgeoisie Or you could just stop smoking that gra** Welcome to the working cla** Welcome, welcome to the working cla** (Verse 3) If half your income's spent on taxes, no second home on a tropic isle If flying in economy and renting a car is your notion of vacationing in style If you've never seen the world's Seven Wonders And you think you probably never will Because you only get two weeks holiday each year And you just don't have the time to k** If you think because you're employed and have a roof over your heads That you're so very privileged because your kids sleep in separate beds But you can't afford the rest home for your parents And it's you whose gotta wipe their a**es Well then welcome to the working cla**