They Are The Powerless People

They are the powerless people condemned by their life's destiny
And by their circumstance of birth to live in poverty
As well as lacking in financial power on election day
Few of them play any part in the electoral process in any sort of a way

They do know about homelessness and hunger and despair
Yet they are not the people to blame for our polluted air
Since they are not environmental vandals pollution they do not create
Though they have nothing in their lives that they can celebrate

They are the powerless people their life stories never to be told
And many of them die quite young and few of them live to be old
They never make news headlines of them few wish to know
And of any financial success in life few of them have to show

They are the powerless people no strangers to prison time
Since many of them in their teenage years do turn to lives of crime
Circumstance of birth has rendered them unemployable for to work for their living pay
So they graduate to lives of crime for them to live they see no other way

They are the powerless people and as powerless they do die
Since death it is one fact of life and fact does never lie
In life born into poverty and life is not always fair
But them we surely cannot blame for our polluted air.