it's a damn shame | Ep. 217

And then, it is wild.

It is wild.

Let me read you some lyrics.

I've been selling my soul, working all day, overtime hours for bullshit pay, so I can sit out here and waste my life away, drag back home and draw my troubles away.

It's a damn shame.

What the world's gone to for people like me and people like you.

Wish I could just wake up and it not be true.

But it is.

Oh, it is.

And it's like that feeling that people have unsatisfied with their place in life.

Feeling like the system is rigged and the system is made in order to oppress you.

That's a universal feeling.

And I'm sure, and I can't play the song because this is YouTube and this is Spotify and if I played the song, I would get in a lot of trouble.

And they would probably delete the episode or I'd get a strike and I'd never be able to stream again.

So, you know, obviously I'm not playing it.

But while I read it, you can almost hear the emotion, can't you? It's a damn shame for the world, what the world's gone to for people like me, people like you.

Wish I could just wake up and not be true.

But it is.

You know, we have this expectation that life is supposed to improve.

We have this expectation that if we elect certain people, that we put certain people in power, that if we have a better stock market or that if certain social changes happen, that things would change and everyone is champion for one issue or another.

They have one favorite political team that they root for or they have another.

They have one thing that is a part of their identity that they feel like they're fighting for.

And after all of this fighting, after all of this debate, after all of this pain and sorrow and trying to figure things out, at the end of the day, it's the same.

Living in this new world with an old soul, these rich men from Richmond, these rich men north of Richmond, Lord knows they all just want to have total control.