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Only Money

Down a dusty road to no one gives a care 🛣️
Doesn’t everybody want to be a billionaire? 💰
Dreamin’ up a plan around the plain and the square 🤓
The fire’s burning deep beneath suburban hair 💇🏻‍♀️

I try to hide who I am inside 🙈
doesn’t matter what I think, I don’t decide 🫡
where I’m going,
if I decide 👍
no way of knowing what the outcome will provide 🤷🏻‍♂️

I strummed my guitar on a front porch swing, it just keeps going 🎸
Hard to tell if I’m not getting any worse, or something’s growing 🧫

middle class living starts at 48.5
If you’re livin’ in New Jersey, baby you’re barely alive 🧟
Stuck in my mind like a nickel to a dime
A little bit of trouble and you’re doing just fine, 🙂
it’s only money
and you need it to survive 🪦

On the landing at the center of bifurcated stairs
Sits a bust upon a pedestal, a hollow, marble glare 🏛️
Ivy climbs a trellis like a preacher climbs a prayer
Like reaching in and finding out there’s nothing really there
📭
Isn’t it funny, the things we hope will help us to thrive? 🌱

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from Painting a Song: Season 3, Volume 10, released November 10, 2023
by Joseph Mallah

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