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Moneylove

from A Matter of Time by Up in the Air

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Wrote this song as a response to Reaganomics way back then. After opening this album with a song about the Wall Street meltdown, it seems a fitting way to end it. I didn't have to change much of the song, only update some of the countries listed in the last verse. Everything we do has consequences, it is just a matter of time. Nice alto flute work by Tom Bruner.

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Moneylove
by John Beccia

There's lucrative lurkers living up on the hill
For power these people are dressed to kill
Polluting with poison for drilling and mining and all at will
For moneylove

The energy monsters get their desires
The laws that protect us are under fire
While power from sun and from wind and from water is shoved aside
For moneylove



The rich getting richer, the poor stay poor
The number of jobless is growing more
Small business is dying, big business is thriving, you know it's all
For moneylove

The large corporations are guaranteed
While Mother Earth suffers from all this greed
Our natural resources divided among them to fill the need
For moneylove


They're cutting back programs that help the poor
They're building more bombs for the next world war
Will it be Yemen, Angola, Rwanda, Korea, or El Salvador
Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, or Georgia, there's so many more
Places where people are dying and children are crying, you know
It's all for moneylove
For moneylove
For moneylove
For moneylove

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from A Matter of Time, released September 1, 2013
John Beccia - piano, synth
Tom Bruner - alto flute
Phil Gross - bass

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Up in the Air Santa Margarita, California

Up in the Air blends elements of structure and improvisation into musical styles as varied as folk, pop, dixieland, bluegrass, latin, and worldbeat. The result is a fresh and ultimately dancable musical experience with a conspicuously multi-cultural sound. Their original songs center on themes of social equity and justice, environmental consciousness, love, and respect for others. ... more

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