If your family needs you, you will pull the plow
You’ll do anything for your children
You’ll become a slave in the rich man’s house
In the hope you’ll be able to save them

So you keep on going, working all the time,
Always on the edge of exhaustion,
Never finding time for your own life
Knowing you’re going to need some

It’s a cruel, cruel way to run the world

They don’t care how many people they use —
the Trumpers and the Koch brothers —
They keep us tired and they keep us confused
Blaming what’s wrong on each other

Aren’t you tired of just standing around
Waiting for something to change
We better decide to get serious now
We have our whole world to rearrange

Cause it’s a cruel cruel way to run the world