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Very simply, this song is based off of a 2012 article (linked below) stating that the average CEO in this country makes 380 times more than the average worker. In the previous song, Transitions, I mention needing to write more protest songs, so here's one. Maybe politics and economics are too complicated for a three minute folk song, but many people truly believe and argue that inequality is THE issue that needs to be solved and start us on the path to making this world a better place. So here's an attempt putting that in plain terms.!

I'm actually doing a Billy Bragg cover set this saturday at the House Cafe and listening to his songs makes me realize how much this song is inspired by his stuff.

money.cnn.com/20…/…/19/news/economy/ceo-pay/index.htm

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Do they work, three hundred and eighty times more than you do?
Do they know, three hundred and eighty times more than you do?
Do they starve, three hundred and eighty times more than you do?
Then why the hell, do they make, three hundred and eighty times more than you do?

Well I think, this is going too far, I think they are getting away
with our future, our past, everything that we once had
And I work, and I like it, I haven’t had it bad so far
but my degree, seems to be, worth less than the paper it was printed on

And my friends, and my family, stuck working dead end jobs
what did they do, to deserve it, a minimum wage barely helping at all?

Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, is what they always say
they always forget to tell you, just how the boots get made

They are products of thievery, of telling the poor to be grateful
they are fine with you starving, as long as you’re willing and able

to work, three hundred and eighty times more than they do
to know, three hundred and eighty times more than they do
to starve, three hundred and eighty times more than they do
to make, three hundred and eighty times less than they do

So I think its time to redefine, just how this wealth is spread
who deserves to benefit, who deserves to be fed
things seem to be getting worse, but we can still resist
And I’m no master at economics, but let me tell you this:

You’re worth, more than the sweat off your brow
you’re worth, more than the night shifts allow
your worth, is something that they can’t buy
your worth, is only yours to define

Because we are worth more than their dollars

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from Hol​(​e​)​y Guitar, released November 1, 2016

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Personal/political storytellin and yellin from Chicago.

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