I didn't take a free ride form Philly to the golden gate
There's a history in my family of us working our way
I didn't mind crap wages everyday and
You never heard one word of complaint
Kinda makes sense; I didn't have no baggage to hold
It all seemed so simple just me and my own
But that world fell in upon itself
When I found myself naked alone

I accepted your promise
I took a patriot's kiss
Brushed away all my desires
We go west — to drown

Some would call a rabbit in a cage ready to run
Some would say you're just cattle ready to freight
Remember when you see me in the relief line
   I got rid of prior restraint
Standing in sadness at your broken bridges
   at your golden gates

— A reminder to the USA's white workers. Remembering history and migration, by demand of economics in this land, and you start erasing our learned racism. An injury to one is an injury to all, ya know. It's easy to see a jump from the Grapes of Wrath to the passage of California's anti-worker proposition 187. Anyone for a scapegoat, to take attention away from class based economics and privilege...