Working Class Song Analysis

This song could have been written as a way to talk to the working class and give them something to relate to, a song they understand because to them its life. The songs meaning is that the working class have to deal with everything, if the rich bosses or “fat cats” have a problem then it will somehow affect the working class, and so much is expected from them. This song is a song of hopelessness and despair, throughout the whole song it talks about problems they suffer from but no way to fix it. “We're the first ones to starve, were the first ones to die” it talks about how they get hit with everything first but it does not give them anything they can do about it so it's just dwelling on the hopelessness. Another example is when it talks about