This song is about injustices faced by the American lower class. Instead of anger, the narrator has only resignation. The song uses sympathy to make the listener take issue with the way people like the narrator are treated. It& #39;s a political protest. https://youtu.be/v8Vx4eJxdZ0 ">https://youtu.be/v8Vx4eJxd...

For contrast, here are the lyrics for the song "One Margarita" by Luke Bryan: https://pastebin.com/raw/7SJHUMAD ">https://pastebin.com/raw/7SJHU...

The American South is mostly conservative, and a big part of conservative American politics revolves around & #39;the government helping poor people is bad.& #39; Pop in general is pretty surface-level, but for pop country you can see a specific vulnerability given its main audience.

If you live somewhere where most people hold core beliefs which are contradicted by certain realities, presenting those realities is not just uncomfortable, but a fundamental challenge to the way those people see the world.

I find it interesting to think about country songs which expose harsher truths in that context. How, of the two songs mentioned in this thread, one reinforces that everything is fine whereas the other argues that fundamental change is needed.