Count It Up

If you've ever owned a car

Or you rent a car

Or you have a company car

Then count that up

Add it to the ever-growing list of

Things you can't claim all the credit for

If your mother had a job

And your dad had a job

When you were growing up then count that up

'Cause pounds and pennies aren't the only kind of capital

If you've ever visited another

Country and waltzed through passport control

Then count that up

Put one more stamp in the book you'd like to call I Own My Own Genius

(Count it up)

If you get to choose the clothes you wear and how you cut your hair

Then count that up

(Count it up)

And you can utilise your democratic

Power for the good of somebody else

Then try to

Count

Count

Count

Count it up

I'm quite an old-fashioned fellow

I am not averse to owning up

Can't we give each other

The tiniest benefit of the doubt?

If you can go through day to day without the fear of violence

Count that up

(Count it up)

If people don't stare at you on the

Street because of the colour of your skin

Count that up

(Count it up)

If your body makes some kind of sense to you

Count that up

(Count it up)

And use the breath you have left to say something that matters

Then try to

Count it up

If you can turn on the tap

And your kids can drink the water

Count that up

(Count it up)

If you've ever had the luxury of turning down a job

Count that up

(Count it up)

If you had books and newspapers in your house when you were a kid

Count that up

(Count it up)

Don't forget

Don't forget

Don't forget to count it up