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For The Well Off

from The Early Years by Shorthand for distance

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Susie grew up in Switzerland
she once revealed this fact to me:
her mother owned a hair salon
and her daddy ran a factory
But Switzerland is just a land
it’s landlocked far from any sea
For dinner plans with friends her wish
is anything but uncooked fish
so Susie has a problem:
Susie
never liked sushi

I knew a guy from the U.S.A.
his fate was not benign
his laptop was too slow for programmes
like AutoCAD an INdesign
He went to study overseas
and it ended with a drag
his parents had to pick him up
from the morgue in a body bag
he killed himself just out of lack
he´s never coming back
His parents cried “Oh my gosh
Josh
he never got a new Mac-
intosh”

This is the voice
of another unsung tragedy
a personal catastrophe
in the globalized economy
people in the first world
[people like you and me]
problems in the twenty-first
century [like you and me]
this is for the affluent who often have it rough
so this is a protest song for the well off.

Claire just finished art school
now her life needs some structure
Rejections from residencies
piling in, it nearly fucked her
When finally she got a yes
it wasn´t one, but two
and in the same time frame
Rome or Rio, what to do?
The agony of choice is bitter
she tells her followers on Twitter
And everyone agrees
with Claire
her life is just unfair

Dale has seen some hard times
recently life pulled rank
as he received a notice letter
from his job, the investment bank
Asking “why always me?”
he´s answered by an echo
Dale recites some poetry
by Donald Trump and Gordon Gecko
Hides his face by the bar
thinking: how sad things are
And: “how can I prevail
as Dale, white, heterosexual male?”

This is the voice
of another unsung tragedy
a personal catastrophe
in the globalized economy
people in the first world
[people like you and me]
problems in the twenty-first
century [like you and me]
this is for the affluent who often have it rough
so this is a protest song for the well off.

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from The Early Years, released March 1, 2017

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