Hard Times in America-Willie Nile

[ti:Hard Times In America] [ar:Willie Nile] [al:Live From The Streets Of New York] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hard Times in America - Willie Nile [00:49.59]I woke up this morning [00:50.48] [00:51.03]With a pounding in my brain [00:52.90]And a half a dozen roaches [00:53.90] [00:54.41]Crawling down the window pain [00:56.72]Got no food in the kitchen [00:58.59]I can't afford the rent [00:59.52] [01:00.49]I had some money yesterday [01:01.47] [01:02.08]But I don't know where it went [01:04.34]I can not find a job [01:06.15]I can not get a loan [01:08.02]I could not pay the bills [01:09.55]So they took back my telephone [01:11.23] [01:11.91]My girlfriend Josephine [01:13.78]She gave me back my ring [01:15.47]She said "Baby till you get some dough [01:16.73] [01:17.86]You can forget about the wild thing" [01:19.42] [01:20.42]Hard times in America Hard times in America [01:26.10] [01:27.86]Hard times in America Hard times in America [01:33.80] [01:38.91]The farmer down the road [01:40.61]He never did no harm [01:42.36]But he could not make the payments [01:43.87]So they auctioned off his farm [01:46.37]All across the heartland [01:48.24]From Mexico to Main [01:50.11]People out of work [01:51.83]Locked up in the human chain [01:53.87] [01:54.75]Hard times in America Hard times in America [02:00.51] [02:02.33]Hard times in America Hard times in America [02:07.96] [02:09.27]They say it's getting better [02:10.53] [02:11.09]We're closing the gap [02:13.07]You know as well as I do [02:14.83]That's just a load of crap [02:16.76]The rich are getting richer [02:18.46]The poor are staying poor [02:20.44]I do believe the Grim Reaper [02:22.26]Is knocking at the door [02:24.09] [02:25.08]Hard times in America Hard times in America [02:30.81] [02:32.48]Hard times in America Hard times in America [02:38.66] [04:01.22]The widow next store [04:02.90]Though once a blushing bride [04:04.71]Is now a pile of skin and bones [04:06.34]Afraid to go outside [04:07.34] [04:08.54]Where hustlers and pimps [04:10.36]And murderers have been [04:12.22]Dressed in rags in feathers [04:13.71]On the outside looking in [04:16.15]People eating garbage [04:17.96]People drinking rain [04:19.77]Sleeping on the sidewalk [04:21.58]In a cardboard hurricane [04:23.74]Some are drinking whiskey [04:25.76]Some are taking drugs [04:27.51]The victims of a society [04:28.73]Still working out the bugs [04:32.04]Hard times in America Hard times in America [04:37.72] [04:39.59]Hard times in America Hard times in America [04:45.21] [04:46.95]Hard times in America Hard times in America [04:52.57] [04:54.20]Hard times in America Hard times in America