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[|Duck and Run]

Duck and Run (3 Doors Down)

To this world I'm unimportant just Because I have nothing to give So you call this your free country Tell me why it cost so much to live Tell me why

This world can turn me down But I wont turn away, oh no And I wont turn around

All my work and endless measures Never seem to get me very far Walk a mile just to move an inch Now even though Im trying so Damn hard Im trying so hard

This world can turn me down but I Wont turn away And I wont duck and run, cause Im not built that way When everything is gone there is Nothing there to fear This world cannot bring me down No cause I am already here, oh no!

Im already here, down On my knees Im already here, oh no, Im already here I must have told you a thousand Times Im not running away

I wont duck and run I wont duck and run I wont duck and run No, no, no pass away

This world can turn me down but I Wont turn away And I wont duck and run, cause Im not built that way When everything is gone there is Nothing there to fear This world cannot bring me down No, cause Im already here This world can turn me down But I wont turn away And I wont duck away Cause Im not built that way

When everything is gone there Is nothing there to fear This world cannot Bring me down No cause Im already here

Analysis

Because I have nothing to give”**
 * “To this world I'm unimportant just

The “Okies” were seen as criminals and trash. Just because they were poor and lived in Hoovervilles they were seen as meaningless.

Tell me why it cost so much to live”**
 * “So you call this your free country

California and the USA really was suppose to be this country where people could be free of poverty and oppression. Where people can have egual opportunitites. Yet it seems that only a certain percentage of people can take advantage of these opportunities. The larger majority, like the okies, have to live in poverty and drive jalopies.

Never seem to get me very far Walk a mile just to move an inch”**
 * “All my work and endless measures

No matter how much they work or how much they make it’s never enough. Wages keep going down and right when they think they have enough for food, the prices go up and they are right back to where they started. They can not seem to make any heedway.

Wont turn away And I wont** **duck and run, cause Im not built that way" Even though the Joads have been turned down and have had many difficult obstacles they wont run. They refuse to go back to oklahoma, part because they have no home there and also because they are tough and refuse to be beat.
 * "This world can turn me down but I

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