Bread & Roses

What did you leave behind?
 More than a wish, more than a pastime
 The weathered wings of the worker bee
 Drowning in debt to the depths
 I regret the day I let them take the flight from me
 What did you give up
 To try and keep a kid tucked in?
 Shielded from the cold
 It's a sin
 The unequals can't win
 Until they control it
 So give me bread and roses
 You get by, or you don't
 You can't stop, or you won't?
 
 Realize, what is yours is mine
 You control it
 So give me bread and give me roses
 Have nots always have not
 Been the long shot but the sorrow sticks
 Into mortar and brick
 Build the castles as the capital rains from the sky
 You're left out to dry
 What is life when hearts starve as well as bodies?
 No one thrives in the descent
 And the end won't justify the means
 So what justifies the end?
 You get by, or you don't
 You can't stop, or you won't?
 
 Realize, what is yours is mine
 You control it
 So give me bread and give me roses
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 Lend out a hand that you can't retract (Can't retract)
 Worked to bone, yea, it breaks your back (Breaks your back)
 It boils up until your skin cracks
 No man is my master
 Fall back
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 So give me bread and give me roses
 You get by, or you don't
 You can't stop, or you won't?
 
 Realize, what's yours is mine
 You control it
 So give me bread and give me roses