Ordinary Man

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    I'm an ordinary man, nothing 
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special, nothing grand,
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    I've had to work for 
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everything I own.
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    I never asked for a lot, I was 
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happy with what I'd got,
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    enough to keep my family and 
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my home.
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    Now they say that times are 
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hard and they've handed me my cards,
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    they say there's not the work 
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to go around.
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    And when the whistle blows, 
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the gates will finally close,
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    tonight they're going to shut 
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this factory down,
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    then they'll tear it do……..wn.
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    I never missed a day nor went 
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on strike for better pay,
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    for twenty years I served them
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 best I could,
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    now with a handshake and a 
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cheque it seems so easy to forget,
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    loyalty through the bad times 
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and through good.
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    The owner says he's sad to see
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 that things have got so bad,
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    but the captains of industry 
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won't let him lose.
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    He still drives a car and 
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smokes his cigar,
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    and still he takes his family 
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on a cruise,
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    he'll never lo……....se.

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    Now it seems to me such a 
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cruel irony,
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    he's richer now than ever he 
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was before.
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    Now my cheque is spent and I 
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can't afford the rent,
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    there's one law for the rich, 
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one for the poor.
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    Every day I've tried to 
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salvage some of my pride,
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    to find some work so's I might 
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pay my way.
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    Oh, but everywhere I go, the 
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answer's always "No !"
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    there's no work for anyone 
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here today,
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    no work tod……..…ay.“

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    And so condemned I stand, just
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 an ordinary man,
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    like thousands beside me in 
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the queue.
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    I watch my darling wife trying
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 to make the best of life,
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    and God knows what the kids 
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are going to do.
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    Now that we are faced with 
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this human waste,
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    a generation cast aside.
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    For as long as I live, I 
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never will forgive,
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    you've stripped me of my 
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dignity and pride.

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    You've stripped me ba……...re.
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