What Does It Take?

Barely left the house before the day started breaking You make it to the train but then you hear it's running late Thousand bucks a month to keep your pillow off the pavement When's it gonna work? when's it gonna break? What does it take to be wanted? What does it take to live a little bit? Twenty-something years and still nobody really wants you Save for all your family and a couple lonely friends Looking back, it feels like you've been working for this moment Now that it's arrived, you're wondering when it's gonna end Let the water in the shower turn to freezing Listening to Ira just to help you fall asleep Wonder if the privilege in your poverty has meaning? Or if you're another number dying in the heat? You deserve the struggle You asked for the change You're dying slow in Brooklyn It gets harder every day What does it take to be wanted? What does it take to live a little bit? What does it take to be wanted? What does it take to get ahead of it? What does it take?