Someone Worse Off

I'm slowly being dragged
I'm so low
But I will never bid
I'm so low

There's only one cure
To kill misery
There's one cure
There's one cure
But I feel so low

There's someone worse off
There's someone worse off

Some people make believe that it's love
And other people say that it's lies
But I know it's hate
My heart is a stone
There's one cure
There's no cure
But I feel so low

There's someone worse off
There's always someone much worse off

There's someone worse off
There's always someone much worse off

The magazine's a new sin
I'm not getting dragged down to me
People sending strings
They're dragged down to me

There's someone worse off
There's always someone much worse off

Malcolm:

This is another of my early psychological numbers. I think I said elsewhere that this psychological point of view was gradually replaced in our songs by the political point of view, which is able to grasp society in its totality. Here the subject is men looking down on women, whites looking down on blacks, etc.

Appears as a bonus track on the 1990 re-release of I am a Wallet.

found on: I Am a Wallet, The Well of Loneliness

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