[Intro - guitar only] (blues guitar, single note bends) [Verse 1 - male rap] Woke up checked the balance same number every day rent went up in February landlord had his say Three jobs between us still can't see the shore middle class became a myth like it was folklore Insurance changed the plan and I'm up the creek same basket ninety four just sixty last week Same broken promises wrapped up feeling real [Chorus - female blues voice] Same old blues different day same old shoes wearing thin on broken ground promises come around then they fall without a sound Lord I got the same old blues working hard and still losing [Verse 2 - male rap] My father worked the same plant thirty years straight watched them close it when I was seventeen late Went to school got the paper on the wall still paying off that loan twenty years after the fall They sold us on a ladder pulled the rungs away handed us the dream and kept the keys that day [Bridge - male rap] Muddy Waters sang about it BB King knew the score Howlin Wolf warned us blues was never just music it was truth in a cup hundred years later still singing the same song [Chorus - female blues voice] Same old blues different day same old shoes wearing thin on broken ground promises come around then they fall without a sound Lord I got the same old blues working hard and still losing same old blues [Outro - guitar fades, female voice] Same old blues... (silence)
