Hungry people want food so the wealthy make committees And they say things like the problem is single parent families And the parents they imprison werent gonna be good anyway And the parents they employ should be grateful when they're paid From the redwoods To the Gulf Stream To the buffalo roaming between You told me that the president fired your mom And a bunch of other labor lawyers in 1981 You were touched with all the radiance a sudden Sun discloses Circulating roses with air traffic controllers Now the same parade's been happening been going back and forth We could've made protected classes of the masses of the poor From the redwoods To the Gulf Stream To the buffalo roaming between This scarcity this poverty this apple on the dappled tree Eaten by somebody using someone else's teeth This dripping spit hit or miss debtor lord wilderness Cats with the tails snipped that wail when the wind shifts You can buy a body sell a body build a body store The USA hates you being poor There’s a lot that's getting through the walls There’s a wolfing of the warbler’s calls When you’re looking at your feet and there's a tremor in the land Of the lives that came before that you may never understand Though you listen though you try That old diamond that old sky Nothing comes from nothing but there's nowhere else to start There's a raven in the rafters and he's aiming for your heart There's a way of congregating where you give someone your hand And keep the other one wide open for whoever else comes in There's a song worth singing when somebody's at your door When I say this is mine what I mean is it's yours