We started recording this song last year but we finished it off during the 2020 Covid thingy. each of us doing our vocal overdubs in our own homes and emailing recordings to each other.
Infinite growth is the route to happiness they say
Forget the economy , then we can grow another way.
Don't you know, what we could do?
we could grow, you know that it's true.
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But the system's out of date
System's out of date.
Change it's not too late
It's out of date.
My politician says "Good jobs for everyone"
That's old news we'll be better when jobs have gone
Let's be free, you her and me
we'll be free, you want to be free.
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Get rid of weaponry, focus on livingry you know.
Buckminster Fuller said this to us all long ago.
Don't you know , what we could do?
We could grow, you know that it's true.
But the....
credits
from System Out Of Date,
released July 23, 2020
Written by Richard Hattersley
Phill Edmundson-Bass guitar and chorus lead vocals
Justin Monkton- Drums and bridge lead vocals
Richard Snow (Hattersley)- 12,6string and acoustic guitars, verse lead vocal and backing vocals, tambourine.
Produced and engineered by Richard Snow & The Inlaws
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