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Get Paid

There’s a junkie girl roaming the streets, looking for a john
while the upscale escort is opening a bottle of Dom Perignon
An assembly line worker hates his job but for the overtime dough
while the foreman hates to tell him we’re gonna have to let you go

It ain’t fair but that is how the game is played
it ain’t fun but everybody must get paid

There’s a fool on every corner who thinks he’s got it better than me
with the car and the house and the flatscreen TV and vacation overseas
I never ran in that race, that’s not who I wanted to be
but you look at me now, I may be many things but I sure ain’t free

It ain’t real money’s just numbers we push around to make a trade
it ain’t right but everybody must get paid

Everybody must get paid
everybody must get paid
like the slots at the penny arcade
before your luck’s about to fade
everybody must, everybody must get paid

When the lights go out in the city Harry finds a place to go
with the shopping cart, the sleeping bag and the coat he uses as a pillow
He counts the coins in his cup, prob‘ly gonna get a bite to eat
and the junkie girl she stands a chance to make a twenty from Harry

It ain’t cute but that is how the cards are laid
it ain’t cool but everybody must get paid

Everybody must get paid
everybody must get paid
like the slots at the penny arcade
before your luck’s about to fade
everybody must, everybody must get paid

Words & music by Markus Rill

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from Everything We Wanted, released February 15, 2022
Words & music by Markus Rill

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»Songs that are beautifully shimmering with ambiguity - brilliant lyrics« - Rolling Stone"

"Rill shows great depth as a songwriter, bandleader and producer" - No Depression/USA

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