Chasing Coin

We paved the garden for a parking lot sale Put a price tag on the Sunday choir Grandma’s recipes in plastic on a clearance rail History boxed up by the fire Kids learn numbers long before they learn names Quarterly reports instead of lullabies Teacher counting test scores Cutting arts again Paint-stained aprons Final goodbyes When the bottom line is the bottom of the world We sell our stories for a dividend swirl Every old song turned to background noise End of a culture (Chasing coins) End of a culture (Chasing coins) Library turned into a premium gym Losers pretend they are born to win The local paper just a pop-up ad Truth outsourced to whoever pays in advance Granddad’s union jacket on an auction page Signed by strangers Shipped overnight We trade our courage for a click and a raise Scroll through the ruins by the blue phone light Is this all we are? Margins and charts? What’s the value of a hand on your shoulder? Of a language lost A promise kept What’s the profit on getting older? Track from the album "Smoke And Mirrors"