Dragging me down

[Verse 1 – spoken flow]
People walk past, no clue what’s going on,
Tried a Fund Me ad — nobody gave a s***, just scrolled on.
World’s gone mad, bonkers and shady,
Good folks starve while the bad ones get gravy.
Homeless man shares his last meal with pride,
Millionaire won’t flick a pound to the side.

[Pre-Chorus – half-sung]
Why do the bad get good returns,
While the good get nothing but lessons learned?

[Chorus – chant / hook]
Dragging me, dragging me down, yeah,
Dragging me, dragging me down.
If we could see emotions, red, blue, green,
Maybe this world wouldn’t be so mean.

[Verse 2 – spoken flow]
Charities fake, just tax evasion,
Whole damn system’s a crooked equation.
Netflix and chill, but the cash still goes,
Back to the corporates, everybody knows.
Even the view gets spoiled by the crowd,
Empathy’s gone, silence too loud.

[Bridge – whispered / echo]
If we could see emotions, the world would bleed,
Maybe we’d notice each other’s need.
Yellow for hope, green for the pain,
Colour the world, bring love back again.

[Final Chorus – repeat with ad-libs]
Dragging me, dragging me down, yeah,
Dragging me, dragging me down.
If we could see emotions, red, blue, green,
Maybe this world wouldn’t be so mean.

(outro whispered under beat)
dragging me… dragging me down…

The Streets style UK garage with spoken word vocals