“Dollars & Cents”
By: Steve Everett
Verse 1
We came form nothing
And we’re making our way back to where
We stole from our children like our children wouldn’t care
We bankrupted families
So that some of us could feast
And the crumbs on their tables is all we have left to eat
Chorus
Dollars and cents, fears and regrets
We’ve become nothing but money and sex
We dumbed down our idols
We tied our own hands
We murdered for peace and we stole all our land
The home of the free seems to be all dollars and sense
Verse 2
We fear what is foreign
Like our families came from here
But our language was different
Back a couple hundred years
We can hoard all our riches
Thinking we can just pass it on down
But the walls to our castles
Stand on somebody else’s ground
Bridge
We keep everyone from doing the things that we have done
We’ve forgotten our own past