[00:31.93]Tear this poorhouse down
[00:36.35]
[00:37.72]When you know how to build it back
[00:42.27]
[00:43.72]Hammer and nail between your heart
[00:46.99]And your hometown 'til you can carry
[00:50.58]This country on your back
[00:54.02]
[01:00.20]Mama glued the Keds sign on
[01:02.65]The back of my little white shoes
[01:05.92]Daddy never crossed the picket line
[01:08.39]It was hard but we made it through
[01:11.15]Only had one little pair of stonewashed jeans
[01:14.80]With a label on the back
[01:17.00]
[01:17.53]I'm a product of the never
[01:19.79]Give up American middle class
[01:24.33]
[01:25.55]Tear this poorhouse down
[01:29.97]
[01:31.41]When you know how to build it back
[01:35.96]
[01:37.41]Hammer and nail between your heart
[01:40.63]And your hometown 'til
[01:42.49]You can carry this country on your back
[01:47.81]
[01:53.58]I got my education at a school
[01:56.94]They could afford
[01:59.63]Scholarships went to the rich
[02:02.17]And the grants went to the poor
[02:04.84]So i stood behind the little downtown bar
[02:08.57]For spending money books and gas
[02:10.50]
[02:11.11]To be a certified member of the work
[02:13.55]Too much American middle class
[02:17.58]
[02:21.84]Now daddy can't get his pension
[02:24.20]
[02:24.71]Or Social Security
[02:27.63]Worked thirty damn years in a coal
[02:29.83]Mine feeding welfare families
[02:33.94]Struggle hard and hide it well
[02:36.88]You sure ain't rich and you sure as
[02:39.03]Hell ain't poor enough to get one little break
[02:42.91]'Cause everything would collapse
[02:45.31]Without the hardworking God-loving
[02:47.23]Members of the American middle class
[02:51.65]
[02:53.38]Tear this poorhouse down
[02:57.54]
[02:59.28]When you know how to build it back
[03:03.86]
[03:05.32]Hammer and nail between your heart
[03:08.58]And your hometown 'til
[03:10.43]You can carry this country on your back
[03:21.68]
[03:41.81]American Middle Class - Angaleena Presley