Broke (Demo [a.k.a. "Scrooge McBroke"])

from The Fireside Demos by Little Fanfare

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How can we pull up the straps of boots that we cannot afford?
Maybe I'll just put it on the card--
Or two--or three--or four.
Then customize with your favorite metaphor--
"Under a mountain" or just "Bled dry".

We're Broke--
I don't if we can be fixed;
Who will put us back together again?
'Cause all the king's horses and all the king's men,
Haven't done the things that they said they did.

You call it "trickle-down",
I call it making us drink downstream;
Staying alive on all that you're pissing away;
For taxes, keep the receipts.
Write it off; file it away;
As it collects dust next to white picket dreams.

Struggling, struggling just to survive;
Is this the way we have to spend most of our lives?
Struggling, struggling just to survive;
Demand to be treated as more than a supply.
Can someone recognize,
This isn't "getting by",
When we daily analyze if we eat tonight?

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from The Fireside Demos, released July 25, 2019

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Little Fanfare Tacoma, Washington

Space Ballads and Rock and Roll from Tacoma, WA with a lot of Memphis, TN thrown in.

Fletch Joyner - Vocals and Guitar
Anson Scarbrough - Bass and Vocals
Bobby Theil - Drums and Vocals
David Lee Jr. - Keys and Vocals ... more

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