We Have To Say What We Have To Say

We have to say what we have to say

As we live life from day to day

Getting moved on in a crazy way

By security oh oh yeah

In freezing temperatures out on the street

Writing these words I'd simply repeat

Not knowing why so turn up the heat

Yet this is life so don't admit defeat

Just carry on the way you are

Doing what you do to take you far

Who really cares about legal power

Because you know your a rising star

Flying high way above the sky

Doing all the things before you die

Knowing it and it's no lie

Going to prison is legal why?

With illegal crimes committed for free

So we don't have to beg you see

In a way to beat poverty

Oh yes baby it's the way to be

Unless your an artist on the road

Having to live no fixed abode

While carrying a big heavy load

As your brain wants to explode

Yet with no money what do you do

For many an artist breaks the rules too

And with no I.D. simply on you

You can't get benefits which is true

So I write my crazy little rhymes

While thinking about better times

In the future without these crimes

That come out quickly in many lines

Giving you all pleasure simply for free

As a poet or artist to be

In a way that comes naturally

Well this is life on the edge you see