Caught in the System

(Verse 1)

I’ve worked hard all my days

Nothing good’s come of it

Stuck in this life of grime

Kept down, can’t escape from it.

(Verse 2)

Pretty pictures in a box

I found them in Mother’s house

She’s now resting in the ground

I work my way through all I found

(Verse 3)

There’s a woman on a boat

Crying children by her side

I found a letter that she wrote

Back in Nineteen thirty five

(Verse 4)

I read the words off the page

A different time, another age

But I recognise the pain

Of having nothin’, endless days

(Chorus)

We’re all caught in the system

The system’s got us beat

Merely processed, will you listen?

Our enslavement is complete

(Verse 5)

Yeah, we work hard all our days

Nothing good comes of it

Stuck in this life of grime

Kept down, can’t escape from it

(Verse 6)

Pretty pictures in a box

I found them in Mother’s house

She’s now resting in the ground

I work my way through all I found

(Verse 7)

Gran was that woman on the boat

Crying children by her side

Mother was only five years old

Back in Nineteen thirty five

(Verse 8)

I read the words off the page

A different time, another age

But I recognise the rage

Of having nothin’, endless days

(Chorus)

We’re all caught in the system

The system’s got us beat

Merely processed, will you listen?

Our enslavement is complete

Written by Simon Wright

(March 2019)

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Genre Rock

Collaboration started March 14, 2019 by SimonW
Last upload 1yr+10mo ago

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