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    1. The Lord Giveth (and the Landlord Taketh Away)

    From the recording Moonlit Rambles (2011)

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    It's a fine line 'tween making ends meet and sleeping in the rain
    Broke down and wishing you were back on that 8am train
    Seems like the screw keeps tightening every single day
    The Lord giveth and the landlord taketh away

    Well, they'll sell you a dream, loan you the money for a house
    And it don't matter if you can't make the payments when all the jobs head South
    See, they bet on both sides, so they win either way
    That's how the Lord giveth and the landlord taketh away

    We just hang around drinking coffee from a paper cup
    They say it'll trickle down, but it just keeps tricklin' up
    And the first hit's free, but after that you gotta pay
    That's how the Lord giveth and the landlord taketh away

    Well, they say there's a crisis, every TV's talking about
    How the same folks who got us into this need us to bail them out
    Guess when you're too big to fail, it means you're too big to pay
    Ain't it clever how the Lord giveth and the landlord taketh away

    Big men got big plans, big plans only expand
    They got no friends, only interests, little men are pawns in their hands
    And they send them to fight for reasons that aren't what they say
    Poor boys don't you know, the Lord giveth and the landlord taketh away

    We just hang around drinking coffee from a paper cup
    They say it'll trickle down, but it just keeps tricklin' up
    Everybody gets a cut, and the newsmen just look the other way
    While the Lord giveth and the landlord taketh away

    They been writing up laws for as long as they been stealing the land
    Make it so convoluted that ordinary folks can't understand
    And it's a grim reminder every year on Columbus Day
    Of just how the Lord giveth and the landlord taketh away

    We just hang around drinking coffee from a paper cup
    They say it'll trickle down, but it just keeps tricklin' up
    It's just bottom lines and lines on the map, people affected get no say
    That's how the Lord giveth and the landlord taketh away
    That's how the Lord giveth and the landlord taketh away

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