No Easy Roads

[Intro]
My life, my life
I've been fighting it all my life
My life, oh, my life
Been fighting it all my life

[Verse 1]
I'm a father, I'm a fighter, I am tough
It's not the working for the peanuts it's rough
It's not the sending every dime home
They denied every time loan
It was all the other stuff
The hold-down, the run-around
The stack, the deck
I'm not working you, before a different colored check

[Pre-Chorus]
Damn you my impeder in me
I am a believеr
Despite your spike bеlts, I will not be slowed

[Chorus]
I know there's no easy roads
I know there's no easy roads

[Post-Chorus]
Easy roads, easy roads, there are no easy roads

[Verse 2]
I'm white, I'm middle-class, embarrassed
I got bad luck when it comes to parents
If you're white, you might meet them
Think they're a-ok
Or of another mother, brother, KKK
I felt like a human barcode, programmed to hate mode
Seventeen years old, solo I must go

[Chorus]
I know there's no easy roads (No easy roads)
I know there's no easy roads (No easy roads)

[Bridge]
My life, my life
I've been fighting it all my life
My life, oh, my life
Been fighting it all my life

[Verse 3]
I said I'm tired and I'm sick
You're a liar full of shit
It's the same old shtick
And I just can't support this
Slammed down the phone, never felt more alone
Single mother, shipped adrift with a toddler on my hip
Begging for a greyhound trim
I don't need you to mention to me
You see the tension in me
I know it, I own it, I hold it
This poker hand to fold it
I'm starting to feel the gravity of three mouthfuls of cavities
Could somebody help me please?

[Outro]
My life, my life
I've been fighting it all my life
My life, oh, my life
Been fighting it all my life