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The Money

by Rain Perry

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The Money
Words & Music by Rain Perry
 2022 Precipitous Music/BMI

The best things in life are free
It’s not about money
My grandpa told me that it’s true:
“If you work hard, good fortune comes to you”

Nope, gotta talk about the money
Oop, gotta talk about the money
Yep, gotta talk about the money
You bet, gotta talk about the money

My grandpa bought a little house up on the hill
He was a poor boy on the GI Bill
He said: “if you’re smart and put your money away
You can be part of the American Dream someday”

Nooooo

I want to believe
He meant well, he was just naïve
I’m not saying he wasn’t motivated
But now I’m a little more educated

Let me tell you a little story about two GIs
Brothers in arms, one black one white
Ready to put the same money down
In Daly City or Levittown
But the Federal Housing Administration
Requires racial separation
If the lender wants to get insured
So they each buy a house – just not next door
Both men start a family
While the white GI builds equity
So when their kids are almost grown
Guess which dad can get a college loan?

So we end housing discrimination
And there’s no more legal segregation
But the wedge between these sons of soldiers
Widens as they each get older
‘Cause the white GI’s kid goes to college
And what he gains is not just knowledge
He gets connections, opportunity
That he passes along to his family
Like little sayings about rainy days
And the fortune that will come your way
If you work hard, but now I see
Those rules were made for my grandpa and for me

So yeah, we gotta talk about the money
We gotta talk about the money
Yep, we gotta talk about the money
You bet, we gotta talk about the money

Nope, gotta talk about the money
Oop, gotta talk about the money
Yep, gotta talk about the money
If you’ve got ten, you can get twenty

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released February 4, 2022
Rain Perry – vocal
Mark Hallman – electric piano, electric guitars, synth, drums, bass, harmony vocal
André Moran – clarinet

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Rain Perry Ojai, California

Rain Perry’s “Beautiful Tree” was the theme for the CW Network’s Life Unexpected, on which she also had the surreal pleasure of appearing as herself. She has released four albums on her own Precipitous Records, as well as writing and touring a solo play about her childhood. In 2016 she completed The Shopkeeper, her first film. She teaches a series of classes called Songwriting for Civilians. ... more

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