Name: Worse Than Me
Duration: P00H02M31S
Description: I am privileged, but that privilege is a fragile thing.

Worse Than Me

from Eking Out A Prophet by Ilan Speizer

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I am privileged, but that privilege is a fragile thing.

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Sometimes I get so weary,
I wanna lie beneath the ground
In hopes that I won’t have to hear
The fuhrer’s hoofbeats bound.
How I wish that life would spare me
All its cruel uncertainty!
But I know that there’s a couple folks
Who got it worse than me.

I fear that my religion
Will betray me one day.
Although I’m not observant,
It could make me someone’s prey.
I wish that life would spare me
All its cruel uncertainty!
But I can think of a hundred folks
Who got it worse than me.

My skin is like a whitewash:
It covers up my flaws.
But bloodhounds don’t see skin tones
When they got you in their jaws.
How I wish that life would spare me
All its cruel uncertainty!
But I can name a thousand folks
Who got it worse than me.

My body is a temple.
I’m so thankful that it’s mine.
But who’s to say the government
Won’t find its way inside?
I wish that life would spare me
All its cruel uncertainty!
But there’s about a million folks
Who got it worse than me.

Outside their’s wars a-ragin’
But I am safe in here
With my universal remote
And my cheap domestic beer.
I wish that life would spare me
All its cruel uncertainty!
But their must be a billion folks
Who got it worse than me.

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from Eking Out A Prophet, released July 16, 2019

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