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Money III: The Proletariat

from Five Exquisite Corpses by Elegant Mess

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Are those that make the machine
Worth more than the machine itself?

Cities get built on the backs of the many
While the mansions and palaces are made from their pennies
Surpluses end up with those that have plenty
While the scraps that remain are divided in twenty

Iron is worth less than gold
and blood is worth more than wine
And when we get old
Nothing is worth more than time

Are those that make the machine
Worth more than the machine itself?

Fortunes are built on the backs of the many
While the urchins and paupers are left with their pennies
To dream, and work, and dream, and work some more
Until the day is done, same as it begun
To dream, and work, and dream, and work some more
Until our lives are done, same as they begun

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from Five Exquisite Corpses, released June 23, 2014

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Elegant Mess is the combined effort of recording artists/producers/film music composers/weirdos Howard Buckwold and Preston Gabriel Garland.

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