working class musicians

Music: Justin Brown/Aja Monet Lyrics: Aja Monet Working, working, working, working

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Though it be a labor of love A labor it is Working the night shift Mills of music venues, clubs, and bars Farmers of feelings Trumpet trigger fingers Grappling brass valves Prodding, pressing Deafened by the rattling roar in a head Toiled by a tired heart Resting between the swinging rounds of rhythms Bless the drummer's hands trolleying a kit On the subway, in the snow The keys players fingers Homesick for cityscapes Maraca-wrists, clap stack Duct taped instruments The message as the medium Everything is practice for stopping bullets Blossoming heart beats, freedom music While the republicoons and the democrazies argue the complexion of money We float between classes and corners From caviar to canned beans E minor is a relative of g major They family In soundcheck, we split the difference Just a tad a reverb, eq the wedge Living upright in the bass meant A backwards world Music that wrinkles time Reporting live from the poet's eye Hand me down sounds Found by an ear to the underground Shedding off the cuff poems on napkins Using hotel pens A language in my mouth Juggling rotten wisdom teeth Fluorescent folk singing the scab of running scales A sore throat at the merch table Selling seashells that carry the sound Of slave ships docked by the seashore When your address is your suitcase The only religion is The show must go on I want my bread and my roses too

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The rent's too damn high The rent's too damn high The rent's too damn high The rent's too damn high The food's too damn high The gas too damn high The school's too damn high The clothes too damn high The phone bills too damn high The lights too damn high

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