unemployment line, rewrite 1

this is what I do

this is how the day begins

I get up out of bed

and I go back in again

in time I make the coffee

wait for the mail to come

worry about the rent

feel like a bum

don't matter what I do

I'm always left behind  

don't matter where I go

it's the unemployment line

fill out applications

update the resume

ignore the rejections

but they just won't go away

climbing through the classifieds

crying through craigslist

think of opportunities

that just won't come

or that I've missed

tell myself that all good things

will come to me in time

but I know that I'm just lying

in the unemployment line

         patron saint of all lost causes

         I could use you now

         I need all the intervention

         heaven will allow

all those soul-sucking jobs

I'd be glad for one today

one with health insurance

and maybe halfway decent pay

but nobody can pay me back

for all the time I've lost

my disappearing confidence

has more than paid the cost

and I am paying dearly

for the economy’s decline

it's just another day

in the unemployment line

it's just another day...