What Was Needed at the Time (Original)

Lyrics:

I can sit and waste years on just how the money is spent
And I'll grieve however long I choose on exactly where it went
And the walls are closing in- debt the new sin, the new sign
A higher education is just what was needed at the time

Invest in the doubts I have for myself
Distracted by the promise of wealth
Does stability trump all else?

I never trust my bones just wear 'em down best used as lead
Ignoring sinking down with the weight
A burden of blues, whites and red
The city breathes humbly - dare I abide?
Dare I neglect crossing T's
Dare I neglect those eyes

Invest in the doubts I have for myself
Rise up, renewed, take down from the shelf
Don't wait to be yourself

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• Little Microscopic Clouds

[PUSSYInternational]

I feel, if you feel, that I shall like to cover this song. How do you feel about that feeling? I understand if its to close to your heart.

sometimes i drag the bar continuously back to hear how your words trickle out like a rain drop finding its unique path down my window!

[soggycheerios]

Colour me flattered! @PUSSYInternational -- yes, absolutely! Please do cover!  Let me know if you are in need of chords. :)

[autumnlingo]

And then, to conclude, I just have to highlight this beautiful line "The city breathes humbly - dare I abide?"

Wow =)

[soggycheerios]

@autumnlingo -- thank you for saying such lovely things. :)

[bridget3739]

i love this song. amazing lyrics.

[PUSSYInternational]

@soggycheerios yup I am in need of your chords :D. I will do the best I can but I dont know if my fingers are as agile as yours, my version may be considerably dumbed down, but I will strive to uphold the heart of the song

[PUSSYInternational]

also a little inner city crime is always a nice background touch in a ukulele song :D

[PUSSYInternational]

wow! i love this line

"I never trust my bones just wear 'em down best used as lead"

both the way you sing it and the words them selves, fantastic.

[autumnlingo]

@autumnlingo which is an excellent line in itself, then you say sinking down with the weight of (your own personal, emotional, or musical) blues, whites (the whites of eyes, the white of skin, the whiteness of Ameican-style psuedo-purity) and red (I just have to think of blood). And it's such genius that you make red not-plural...

I'm sure some people'll say 'ur analyzing too much', but honestly, genius comes in such small inflections as these, not in the big wallops most people are used to...

[autumnlingo]

Those last two stanzas are really genius in the way of poetry - I mean, what you did with "A burden of blues, whites, and red" - oh! Besides the fact that the song (as with some of your others) resides around the crisis of living in an awkward contemporary world of jobs, track homes, long distances between people who even live across the street -- all this we hear in 'red white blue' but to combine it with the first line, "I never trust my bones, just wear em down best used as lead" ----------