[Verse]
Line of tired eyes at the station
Stale air hot breath late bills
Punch in punch out same rotation
Soul on sale for small spills
[Prechorus]
Is this living or slow eviction
Body breaking chasing fiction
[Chorus]
Just scraps of a paycheck
Rent eats the rest I starve the week
Working to just survive
Never enough money to truly live I grind my teeth
Scraps of a paycheck
Whole damn life marked down and cheap
[Verse 2]
Boss man laughs with his full glass
My lunch cold rice in a jar
Clock on the wall moves thick as tar
Hope on layaway low class
[Prechorus]
Tell me whose gold are we lifting
While our own ground keeps shifting
[Chorus]
Just scraps of a paycheck
Coins in a jar like broken teeth
Working to just survive
Never enough money to truly live I choke I seethe
Scraps of a paycheck
I give my life they give me grief
[Bridge]
What if I walked out no warning
Left this cage floor still warm
Would I find more than this mourning
Or just new teeth in the same storm
[Outro]
Scraps of a paycheck still ringing
Till my hands stop their shaking
If this is life I am quitting
Or I swear I will tear it open and take it back