Living in Luxury (with video)

Tell me again how we live in luxury

this modern day life of throwaway absurdity

where its a privilege to queue for food

whilst getting knowing glances judging you

when we can't face our neighbours, as they know..

they have seen your recycle bag and the contents it shows

the tins of food bank sustenance that we can't live without

the cheap cans of poison we use to wash it down, to blot it out

Treat us like we live the high life, in our palaces in the sky

the high rise lives, lived in towers that are despised,

a blot on the landscape the rich man sighs, as he pulls up to his gated mansion of lies

and as the flames rise, the crocodile tears fall from those same eyes

the combustible walls fall, the lives inside lost to all

cost cutting measures to save a few pounds, to pile on the mountains - already too tall

poor lives matter less than the upper classes

this the lesson that the newspapers provide to the masses

We live in luxurious times, when we can't get by without a personal loan shark

a man that wont think twice about kneecapping you in an alley after dark

minimum wage welfare state, feels unfair that our lives are lived as wage slaves

no set retirement date, cant stop must keep going, work till you drop, dig your own graves

cash flow slows - it circles the plughole then down it goes

and if you want help from the bank, they like to say no

but will bill you for the time it took to tell you so

lining the pockets of stockholders and corporate suits

whilst they treat us like dirt on their polished shiny boots

Live in luxury, so why must I ask, do we need to find escape at every path we take

why do we fall into the lake of tears that addictions create

drink, drugs, sex, any way to escape from the void that surrounds

to dull down the screaming sounds, or the thudding noise that pounds

we watch television shows to see how the other half live their lives

but its less the other half - than the small percentage that hold us at the point of their knives

thieves and vampires sucking us dry, bleeding us of our rights

and we just sit back and take it because they call themselves knights

Thanks For Reading.

Peace & Love. 

Kyle.