respond to the lyrics of underdog

I thought this lyric is kind to describe the poverty, how life is like for those people who live in poor. I can feel the desperation from those people, I even can see those people’s eyes when I hear this song. It touched me a little. Though this is a sad song, but can feel something in common.

In my opinion, the underdog means the poor people. They live a hard life. They struggled every day due to the financial problem. it just like the sentence from the lyric, “ bills, they piled up on the coffee table like they are decorations.” I can feel the desperations, which are full of the house. They don’t have so much money to pay for the bills, they don’t know which should pay first or how to pay for it. They just feel they have tried their best to live a life, but it seems did not work, still have so many bills need to pay. So they have to work harder, and save much more. Maybe eat cheap food, maybe not go shopping so much more, maybe they have to work long shift. When you face these bills, I think they will not have a good mood to do other things. It seems happiness is only belong to those people who do not need to worry about their bills. For most of us, we have to figure out how to live a life without debit. Also we can see from the lyrics: “coming home don’t never seem to be a celebration.” “homes with no heat stiffen your joints like arthritis”. Home supposed to be comfortable place for most of people, but for these people who live in poverty, when they go home, it means how to deal with the financial problem. how to pay for the house, how to pay for the living, how to pay for the children education, and so on. They have to deal with these problems, and have to think how to make much more money and how to save much more money.  How can they enjoy the life when they are at this state? So we can see some of them have to go outside to rob, or thieve. “but crime rises consistent with the poverty rate”. For some of them, they are so desperate, and have no idea to how to deal with their life, they have to do something illegal. Another big problem is their feelings of loneness. “just hit me at the house so I know I ain’t alone”, “sip a 40 to the brain for the chemical reaction”.  They feel so lonely, because they don’t have so much time to be with their family, they need to work. Also they don’t have so much money to pay for the trip, to pay for themselves to enjoy their life. The house is full of desperation, loneness. This is the situation the poverty is. They are so busy with their work, they even don’t have much time to think, just work, sleep, eat and work. Who take care of them? No one. Who can help them, no one. I just feel so helpless, because I also can do nothing for them. And on some degree, I am also in the poverty. I have to pay for my house, my schooling, and my daily life. I also tried my hard to find a job, but it is just so difficult for me to find a job which can totally cover my bills. This is the situation, and this is the truth. For most of us, we are in poverty, while few of us can live a rich life. It is just unfair, but we can do nothing. The only way is working hard.