Skint & Demoralised - I Matter Lyrics

So, a suit-wearing strangle slips in the street
And we're immediately called into action.
Offer to call an ambulance,
Buy em a bottle of water
Continue, with smug satisfaction.
All well and good.

But on the same street,
Someone's slumped in a doorway.
Warm can of Oranjeboom.
A thousand-yard stare.
Rolled-up cigarette,
Last week's clothes,
Ironically, what we might call ""bed hair"".

And they might mumble,
Or muster conviction,
For less than we left in the tip jar at Costa.
Only this time, we don't stop,
Or offer some help
They are a shabby unwanted imposter.

And 50p costs a whole lot more
Than acknowledgement as a human.
And how many times,
When they're sat there with a dog
Do we instinctively feel sorry
For the dog?

Now you see em. now you don't.
Now you see em. now you don't.

All i wanna know
Is ""i matter"".
I just wanna feel
""i matter"".
Just wanna be
(""i matter"").

All i wanna know
Is ""i matter"".
I just wanna feel
""i matter"".
Just wanna be
(""i matter"").

And they say there's a system in place,
For these inconvenient scourges on society'.
But if you take someone
Who sleeps in a doorway in the rain,
Or in a barn, covered in crawling rats,
Or who shits themselves, with no fresh clothes:
Whose life
Is a never-ending Groundhog Day'.
Walking the streets again and again,
But with nothing to gain,
Except for the next meal, or the next hit

Christ alive do you really think
That they'd choose to turn back
If the system was anything like what it should be?
If the system was in place
To meet the needs of the people
Who need it more than we can even imagine.
On this jolly game of Snakes & Ladders:
Nine months of sacrifice and compliance,
One tiny blip,
And it's back to the start again.
Why bother?

Now you see em. now you don't.
Now you see em. now you don't.

All i wanna know
Is ""i matter"".
I just wanna feel
""i matter"".
Just wanna be
(""i matter"").

All i wanna know
Is ""i matter"".
I just wanna feel
""i matter"".
Just wanna be
(""i matter"").