Working Class Hero

I was listening to my iPod today and it was on shuffle. Then the music video Working Class Hero by Green Day started playing. I had never really listened carefully to this song before because I always thought it wasn’t such a catchy song, but today I actually listened to the lyrics.

Working Class Hero Lyrics:

As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me

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I realized how sad and true this song is. This is such a sad video because it reminds us that there are people so rich they can go through life getting anything they want, and then there are people who are living in poverty. There are people living in third world countries with genocide and poverty who see their family being killed right in front of them. This song talks about how everything in this world is controlled by capitalism and we don’t really have many choices in what we want to do because if we want to survive, we need to get a well paid job so that we will be able to live somewhere and have food to eat. We don’t get a choice whether we want to get a job or not, because we'll have to find a way to get money somehow. And the only way to do that, besides robbing people, is to get a job.