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Want no trouble but it comes my way
Fifth of each month like judgement day
Scrapin' by is how you play
Try to make do, try to make my way

I keep up with the day's events
but each day leaves me in suspense
In spite of all my good intents...

$16.15
I got $16.15

Not like I don't know the deal
Keep my shoulder to the wheel
Pushin' harder every day
All it does is roll away

I can say in my defense
I can't live at no expense
Look at all the evidence

$16.15
I got $16.15

But there's a place somewhere
where it ain't what you got
It ain't what you got but what you share
So if you need it, you can have it
It's all there
I paid my bills (paid my bills)
I paid my rent (paid my rent)
Here it is -- what I ain't spent

($16.15)
Bangin' 'round here collecting dents
($16.15)
Here it was and there it went
($16.15)
Can't live without those dead presidents
($16.15)
($16.15)

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from Songs for Placement and Licensing, released September 15, 2020
Tommy Banks: lead vocal
Leslie Jackson and Ira Marlowe: backing vocals

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Ira Marlowe

Ira Marlowe's songs have appeared in indy films, been featured on NPR and Dr. Demento, and received a Parent's Choice Award. He's taught songwriting at UC Berkeley and penned the tunes for four shows by a Tony-winning theatre troupe.

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