Some people getting by on a family name
Some people getting by on some family shame
Some people 'round here, just take it year by year
Some people getting ready for the end of the world
Some people getting ready for their first-born girl
Some people 'round here, well it ain't always so clear
What the people gonna say and what they hear
Some people beg for money at the gasoline pump
Some people cryin' poor on a wall street slump
Some people 'round here, what they charge ain't what they clear
Some people coming' here with a job and a plan,
Some people flee from war in a foreign land
Some people 'round here, well it ain't always so clear
And you never know who you'll be in a year
Don't ever lose, don't ever lose your heart
It's hard enough just finding your part.
Some people getting high off a God they ain't seen
Some people getting by on a hope and a dream
Some people 'round here, I call it educated fear
Some people 'round here, they try and make you see
The difference in the world between you and me,
Some people 'round here, in election years
Divided by the words we want to hear
Some people gonna love and some will fear
And you don't ever know who you'll be in a year