No Ordinary Creature

Sat down in the park, just taking the air

Up comes some geezer with his trendy grey hair

Says - what's up with you, you look a little blue

I said - the world is just so shit and unfair

And just like any Sunday, I'm contemplating Monday

With a certainty that everything is wrong

He says - you're not wrong there, but those that really care

Will still be here to help us all along

(he said) An underpaid teacher is no ordinary creature

And the guy who brings your groceries is king

All the nurses and the doctors, and the boats an helicopters

Who rescue refugees who cannot swim

Never mind the reckless, the lazy, rich and feckless

History will judge them bright and clear

And we'll just stick together, and we'll wait for better weather

And we'll never let ourselves give into fear

I looked to the to the left and I looked to the right

Stared at the daylight, got lost in the night

I turned my head to the unnecessary dead

And I counted them and counted them again

You work to live in poverty, that doesn't seem quite right to me

Honesty's reward is simple pain

Losers pay their taxes, winners tilt the axis

Point their rockets further into space

(y'all don't come back now)

An underpaid teacher is no ordinary creature