I'm living on food stamps
I'm working three jobs
I'm feeding the fat cats
While going to the dogs
I'm joining the union
Gonna make them play fair
Cause down at the docklands
They're stealing my share
I'm burning my bridges
And I'm throwing stones
At the folks in glass houses
Who won't leave me alone
It's time that I stand up
There's no time to kill
If I don't fight for my own life
Then nobody will
Oh I've been out on the job for so long
Oh and I long for the touch of sweet Alice's hand
I want to live, But I'm willing to die
For all of those things that my dad was denied
I can't go on hiding and scrounging for scraps
You get pushed around long enough, you start pushing back
They banished my brother for speaking his mind
They raped my poor sister and they'll rob my son blind
They took all I owned, they can say that they tried
But try as they might they'll never take me alive
And those who made millions and stacks upon stacks
They built their great empires right on our backs
We've had quite enough and it's time they faced facts
They're fired, They're finished, we're giving them the axe
Oh they've been grinding me down to the bone
Oh and I long for the rights of a free living man
I'll march through the streets in the wind and the rain
Til every last link is broken in every last chain
Our numbers are growing, their numbers are small
Together we stand and divided we fall
We're living on food stamps
We're working three jobs
We're feeding the fat cats
While going to the dogs
We're joining the union
Gonna make them play fair
Cause down at the docklands
They're stealing our share
We're burning our bridges
And We're throwing stones
At the folks in glass houses
Who won't leave us alone
It's time that we stand up
There's no time to kill
If we don't fight for our own lives
Then nobody will