Great Recession

The Great Recession endures years later for many hard-working people who were knocked on their asses when they either lost their jobs, their life savings, their confidence in the market, their dignity or all of the above. The song "Great Recession" is a driving "country-ish" rocker about that whole scene including the slick-talking white collar gamblers on Wall Street and the banking board rooms who got away with everything.

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Credits & Lyrics

Credits

Richard Lehmann – Vocals
Glenn “Kootz” Taylor – Instruments, backing vocals

Recording, Mixing & Mastering – Glenn “Kootz” Taylor
Mixed and Mastered at Taylor-Made Productions, North Caldwell NJ
© 2016 Stop Chester Music

 

Lyrics

Song and lyrics by Richard Lehmann (ASCAP)

The tears in your eyes only pissed me off
The stab in my back froze the blood I coughed
20, 30, 40 years up in flames
Kids out of college weren’t spared the shame

You know the brokers and banks are too big to fail …. GR
And Wall Street gamblers got a card for jail … GR
Making sweet with politicians in DC
Sharing pots of money paid by you and me … GR

Chorus:
Ooooh weee pie, in the sky
Name your crime, dodge hard time … GR

You know the crash gave your boss the excuse he sought … GR
He put your ass out of work it was the lesson taught … GR
He shipped your gig over to another land
Pays some dude a nickel and pockets a grand … GR

Chorus:
Ooooh weee pie, in the sky
I lost mine, woe is I …
Ooooh weee pie, in the sky
Hear them lie, all the time….GR

(Solo)

So what’s it gonna be now your goose is cooked…GR
Some creep grabbed your car and it’s on the hook…GR
Ready to be towed away with your heart
Living hand to mouth is a modern art…GR

Chorus:
Ooooh weee pie, in the sky
Raise it high, while I go cry …
Ooooh weee pie, in the sky
All my dreams, vaporized … GR

Better keep your head down and your eyes awake…GR
Your walls will crumble and your building shake…GR
The third world is coming to your zip code
And no one gives a damn if you implode …GR

The river’s running dry and it’s draining my heart now
Looking to the sky for a word to the wise now
Money makes the rules and owns the game now
What’s around the corner is anyone’s guess now