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?

[F train]

[sax solo]

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?