Memo Salazar - More Songs About Money

from Bushwick Book Club presents The Great Gatsby by The Bushwick Book Club

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1920, 2020, you pick any century
and tell me human misery
has changed in some capacity

those that have and those that don't
living separate fantasies
your new york is hard to see from my world of luxury…

why we all be playin' games like grown ups? so sophisticated-
gets so complicated when desires get frustrated
you were loved and now you're hated- it's a silver plated life
with a gilded wife but scrape it with a knife you'll find the strife i tell you-

rich and poor are both unhappy, but the rich hold all the cards
drive their cars and run you over spending all their four leaf clovers

the ones that weren't born here are the ones full of pretensions
they've adopted attitudes from movies full of condescension
perpetuated myths and mannerisms of invention
while born-and-bred new yorkers are the ones that don't get mentioned
they're genuine and never qualify for your attention

it could be the hamptons, generations full of power
it could be the williamsburg, who live in artsy towers
buying up the property, to them it's like Monopoly,

their reckless sweeping of the poor -
like they're nothing but debris
assimilating culturally and then making it trendy-

mister gatsby, mister gatsby
a phony among phonies, mister gatsby...

america says you're the greatest book it's ever read
don't know what good that does us, but that's what the critics said

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from Bushwick Book Club presents The Great Gatsby, released May 22, 2012

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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