"Not Today"

What does the lottery, politics and religion all have in common?
They ALL reel us in to make us pay.
I say hey not today... I won't be suckered in that way...
I find it hard to think that I'll become their prey.

I have prayed, I have slaved, I have lived by other's ways
I had wondered where my soul would likely run.
Mostly days I'm ashames by the way things are today...
and mainly by the top three from above.

What a shame who's to blame in this God for sakin' game
I know I've had my back against the wall.
Don't know why but I've tried more than several dozen times
I can't remember when I once stood tall.

As I write, nice and polite... I hear the anger in my voice.
The visions in my mind reveal the past.
What's wrapped up tight and lit up bright that caught the corner of my eye...
showed me to a light that didn't last.