I haven't read this entire thread but I'll comment on verse 1.

I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day
Dude, most people I know have worked all day for decades and decades until their 60s or beyond; get over it man you don't even look 40! I started working all day at age 10 raking neighbors' leaves in the Fall and shovelling their driveways in the Winter for less than minimum wage. No one has seen me whine and cry.

Overtime hours for bullshit pay
OK, so why haven't you invested in your education and skills matrix? Let me guess, you hate school and any form of instruction.

So I can sit out here and waste my life away
This is your choice boy. Pull up on your bootstraps. What's that? You don't have any? Then kill a deer and make some.

Drag back home and drown my troubles away
Do you really think spending 30% of your take-home pay on beer will improve your station in life?

Bottom Line: If you can't make it in these United States brother, you can't make it anywhere.

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