heat flow

cuz imagine if the billionaires were living paycheck to paycheck

imagine how better off all of us would be

if they spent half those paychecks at the corner store

waiting in line to pay for chips, toothpaste and the lottery

 

cuz imagine if the billionaires were living paycheck to paycheck

maybe then it wouldn’t matter if you’re in a boardroom or working the frontlines

cuz your family would be fed and clothed and housed and schooled

and you’d still have good money left behind

 

cuz imagine if the billionaires were living paycheck to paycheck

like do they need that one and only Ferrari for their collection

as much as i need to buy my one and only ride to their job across the river

a used chevy malibu and a wage good enough to drive across a city

that says it can’t afford a bus line way out to my small town

 

cuz the billionaires ain’t living paycheck to paycheck

telling everyone self reliance is better than relying on the government

yeah and then paying us all wages so low

that self reliance is a way of life that’s only affordable on billionaires row

 

cuz the answer’s never been in some impossible ideology

some simple minded utopia

where perfect people follow a perfect ideology to some perfect result

it’s just been i’d like to feed myself and my kids without losing control

 

cuz imagine if the billionaires were living paycheck to paycheck

imagine how better off america would be

if they spent half those paychecks at the corner school

waiting in line to invest in a healthy america that could not be beat

 

maybe then our kids won’t be forced to live on rafts made of plastic garbage

floating down the flooded city streets their grandparents skipped across

no longer choosing to learn chinese and russian at a university

but being forced to speak it when the fresh water’s all gone