It's about his nomadic street kid life and the angst it caused. He's "absent from political authority" because he has nothing to lose. He's just some street punk with practically no identity.
People were dying all around him... shit happened.
When he says "sometimes the lion share ain't there"
he means that sometimes he's left without a meal or maybe drugs whether it would've been stolen, given, or sold to him.
It's about his nomadic street kid life and the angst it caused. He's "absent from political authority" because he has nothing to lose. He's just some street punk with practically no identity. People were dying all around him... shit happened. When he says "sometimes the lion share ain't there" he means that sometimes he's left without a meal or maybe drugs whether it would've been stolen, given, or sold to him.