We're way behind we're living on the edge of time

We must get rich becoming poor became a crime

Many promises where made but in the end

The first to die has always been the working man



They tell our kids in school it's like that don't ask why

We gotta work until we're old enough to die

The more we learn the more we still don't understand

The first to die has always been the working man



We're the first to fight, We're the first to die

And the last to find the bloody reason why

Again and again since I don't know when

The first to die has always been the working man



To keep your job you have to do the best you can

Building houses for unhandy business men

And when you're all used up nobody gives a damn

The first to die has always been the working man