America's highways are all Route 66 America's highways are all Route 666

Why'd the hobo cross the road--to get the other side

Dotted yellow line a new kind of divide

Thumb out, took his last free ride

Loosing his life was easier than loosing his pride

 

But it happens nationwide

Providers can't provide 

We associate joblessness with homelessness 

And see that suicide is easier than sleeping sewer side

 

Hoover High: upper middle class 

Couldn't withstand a stock market crash

A man in his allotment wore a rope like his tie

Why'd a man with a savings account die?

Now 2 of my classmates, fatherless

Suicide's reverb, sonorous 

 

I live in a town that glorifies a hated president 

Company, called Hoover--after our dissident 

hoovervilles, his name bore the hobo settlement 

The companies name forshadowed it as epithet

Outsourcing became progressions impediment 

 

Standing At the off ramp asking for change 

The window transaction, the pitty exchange 

But they might be asking for more than spare change?

Is Sam Cookes request all that strange? 

 

We're praying for Gods hand, he's watching our own 

Waiting for harvest that has never been sown

If you haven't a hay penny then "God bless you"

But pennies don't "fall from heaven" they come from you 

 

If churches were taxed the same as a business

The Food Stamps program would be paid by the religious

If they took their tithes outside to bear witness

Maybe they could stop inciting the seditious 

 

Obama Care, Welfare, Medicare, Healthcare 

It's a better way of life for those everywhere 

It's more than the avoidance of suffering 

It's the pursuit of happiness

But we wait for the church offering 

To help the hapless

 

Jobs can mean the difference of life and death

For some it's worth their last breath

My dream calls me to be an advocate 

To fight for rights that are adequate 

To be a politician, fight the opressor

I refuse to stand town to the transgressor

Instead of praying and calling them greedy

My hand an extension of God's for the needy