The Capitalist Blues - Leyla McCalla

You keep telling me to climb this ladder

I’ve got to pay my dues

But as I rise, the stakes get higher

I’ve got the Capitalist Blues

When I give everything

I won’t have much more to lose

I am swimming in an ocean of sharks

They are telling me how I’m gonna make

My little mark in this cold, cold world

It can be such a cold, cold world

You keep telling me to go a little higher

Try to take a different view

But you can see I’m not inspired

I’ve got the Capitalist Blues

And if I give everything

I won’t have much more to lose

It’s not fair, it’s not right

I don’t know what I’m gonna do with my life

It’s not fair, it’s not right

I wasn’t born to just endure all this strife

Tryna make my way in this cold, cold world

It can be such a cold, cold world