[Lyrics/Poem] Lower class River (2012)

[Context: This was written directly after falling out with someone who judged me for being on benefits, I'd only recently just graduated from university, and it was proving difficult to get a job. They compared me to them, about how I'm not 'experienced in life enough' because I've never been abroad or gone much beyond my town really. They despised the fact that I said that I had adventure on my doorstep, I don't need to travel the worlds to realise it. The only reason they'd ever had the chance to go abroad was due their financial background (their background) - they'd never earned it, or worked hard for it.]

Opinionated, and living in a fantasy land

and because of that you’ll never understand

What it’s like to feel this sorta pain

To watch your hope go down the drain

Working your bones right to the core

But being treated as if you’re a chore

Feeling yourself drive around a bend

Trying to make means meet every end 

  

To feel yourself tied to a system

That doesn’t understand

Oh, how I’d love to escape

escape to your fantasy land

To see things amongst the diamonds and silver

Instead of watching things fall into a lower class river

 Accused of being feckless, and of no use

Such harsh words break you straight through

I'm not too proud to take charity

I've been forced into a world of reality

I'm not judging you, I just want you to see

the world through the life that is me

I won’t beak down, and I won’t give up

I have my passions, even though I'm out of luck

To feel yourself tied to a system

That doesn't understand

Oh, how I’d love to escape

escape to your fantasy land

To see things amongst the diamonds and silver 

Instead of watching things fall into a lower class river

This class hatred you convince yourself of

Looks like you forgot the path you come from

don’t tell me you understand my hurt

you don’t appreciate what a pound is worth

dig in your heels, act like you care

In reality your judgement isn't fair

So escape to your fantasy where you do no wrong.

That’s fine, you inspired this honest driven song.