| Expensive being poor
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| And the car is of the road
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| But I never had a car
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| But I pay more for food
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| But the supermarkets too far
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| It’s expensive being poor
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| Because everything cost more
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| Knocking on a closing door
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| It’s expensive being poor
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| Someone throw me down some crumbs
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| I will eat them off the floor
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| It’s expensive being poor
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| But I look good when I get desperate
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| And the box is on the fritz
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| It’s a black and white, or was
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| I tried taking it to bits
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| Now the picture’s just a grey fuss
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| It’s expensive being poor
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| Because everything cost more
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| Someone pick me off the floor
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| It’s expensive being poor
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| How can I live with what I did
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| When the cinema is 6 quid'
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| It’s expensive being poor
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| But I look good when I get desperate
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| Let the good times roll
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| Into a bottomless hole
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| With job friends and future
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| My ideal home furniture
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| Let the trumpets sound
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| As my house falls down
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| And the dust begins to clear
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| And I’m lying on the ground
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| And I’m standing on a path
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| In an unknown part of town
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| And the path leads me away
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| Over hills and out of sight
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| In the blazing sun by day
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| And the hanging moon by night
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| And I wind up in a place
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| Where I never have to count
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| And I never see the waves
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| As I push my leaking boat out
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| It’s expensive being poor
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| Because everything hurts more
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| Knocking on a bolted door
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| It’s expensive being poor
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| Someone throw me down some crumbs
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| I will eat them off the floor
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| It’s expensive being poor
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| But I look good when I get desperate |