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Millionaires

from Clouds Today by John Ludington

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Can anyone explain the logic in convenience at the cost of our future?
Come on and clue me in on the master plan
A reason for the loss of good stature

A hand full of shops gone under in a summer
And the rest are just treading water
Folks have strolled past each day, but alas
The season is through getting hotter
And it appears we’ve chosen just the same
Where do we think our bucks go
When we show for the low cost convenience of a big name
We get home quicker and Joe Shmo is that much richer

And the owner of the corner mart is out of smart ideas
And the thread she hangs onto is thin
It cuts deep within the very hands that run what we belong to
And what do we really belong to man?

Like every other
This town is finding it difficult to breathe
Like nobody’s brother
The big boys crowd in where they cram
And they wont share and they wont leave

And I want to know
Who’s selling property to them in the yard between your bedroom and mine?
And who gave them the keys to the offices of the Courthouse and City Hall?
And who stands in line to vote for them at the mall?
Are you choosing empty halls over a sunny sidewalk and someone’s life’s work?
Are you too busy to stop for that rather than filling the hat of some rich jerk?
Don’t you know my boss wishes she could pay me more?
She gets up every morning and works hard
Oh wont you please come buy goods from her store…
Just over look the construction
Don’t let governmental stupidity be an obstruction
Or you’re letting the drunken capitalist stupor
Stumble all over the streets you don’t pay for
When you lay your money down for millionaires in distant towns
Millionaires…

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from Clouds Today, released January 1, 2001

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