| Standing in line marking time
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| Waiting for the welfare dime
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| Cause they can't buy a job
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| The man in the silk suit hurries by
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| As he catches the poor old ladies eyes
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| Just for fun he says get a job
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| That's just the way it is
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| Some things will never change
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| That's just the way it is
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| Ah but don't you believe them
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| Said hey little boy
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| You can't go where the others go
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| Cause you don't look like they do
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| Said hey old man
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| How can you stand to think that way
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| Did you really think about it
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| Before you made the rules
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| He said son
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| That's just the way it is
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| Some things will never change
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| That's just the way it is
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| Ah but don't you believe them
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| Yeah
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| Well they passed a law in '64
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| To give those who ain't got a little more
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| But it only goes so far
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| Cause the law don't change another's mind
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| When all it sees at the hiring time
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| Is the line on the color bar
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| That's just the way it is
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| Some things will never change
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| That's just the way it is
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| That's just the way it is, it is, it is, it is...
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| That's just the way it is
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| The way it is
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| That's just the way it is |