What More Do You Want from Me

Mmm

Every day its somethin new

A bill goin up, a right goin down

Sometimes I wanna ask the folks in charge

What more do you want from me

Rents due Friday, lights due tonight

Paycheck gone before it see daylight

They say the numbers look good on the news

But we still losin while the rich cant lose

You raise the price, call it policy

Government, what more you want from me

You tax my check, then tax my dream

Say freedoms free, but that aint what it seem

You bail out banks, but not the broke

We breathin debt, and its hard to choke

You feed us lies on the evening TV

What more do you want from me

We work, we bleed, we serve, we pray

Yall make promises, then look away

Whole towns dryin up, factories gone

And yall still singin that same ol song

Mamas in line just to buy some bread

Babys cryin, Daddy hangin his head

From the border to the city to the mountain sea

You takin hope from folks like me

We gave our sweat, our dignity

Now tell me, what more do you want from me

You took our jobs, our faith, our time

You rewrote truth and called it fine

You want our silence, our sanity

What more do you want from me

You done took the wages

You done took the dream

Dont take the will to believe

Cause thats all we got left

Mmm, what more do you want from me