The Promise-John Schneider

[00:13.37]Cardboard floors and cardboard walls cardboard ceiling too [00:19.79]No running water no lights to turn off for you [00:25.73]You're out on the street you got noting to eat [00:28.68]With your wife and your little girl too [00:31.90]And night's getting colder like society's shoulder [00:34.72]And there is nothing that you can do and you ask [00:38.42]Who took the endings from the fairytales we were told [00:44.17]And who took the pride and dignity out of growing old [00:50.45]And when did the government quit lending a helping hand [00:56.69]And who took the promise from the promised land [01:12.51]You work long hours never missed a day [01:15.44]You believed in the american dream [01:18.51]And like most of us you lived a little bit beyond your means [01:24.88]When you heard the news about the factory's move [01:27.92]A feather could have knocked you down [01:30.95]And you wanted to cry but you held it inside as you watched you're dying town [01:37.15]And some went south and some went west and some never went at all [01:43.34]But most got hustled by the Washington shuffle that never returned your calls [01:49.32]And you ask who took the endings from the fairytales we were told [01:55.78]And who took the pride and dignity out of growing old [02:01.74]And tell me and when did the government quit lending a helping hand [02:08.45]And who took the promise from the promised land [02:23.99]For twenty-five years you forged the steel [02:27.07]That built America and turned the wheels [02:30.16]For twenty-five years and now they want you starting over like a twenty-five [02:36.40]So you went by the book and you played by the rules [02:39.66]Now you're out on the street like a pack of wolves [02:42.61]And a cold wind blows from the north all the way down to Mexico [02:48.41]And you ask who took the endings from the fairytales that you heard [02:54.99]And who took the charity right our of the holy word [03:00.60]And tell me when did the government quit lending a helping hand [03:07.19]And who took the promise from the promised land [03:17.07]Tell me who took the promise from the promised land