Speech = Money

7 weeks ago by @carleybaer

Speech = Money

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Liner Notes

#fuc #protest #americana

This song came out of a conversation with @erbaer this morning.

Lyrics

If money is speech
Then speech is money
And the longer I talk
The richer I get
If money’s protected
Then it’s to be expected
That the more words I say
The less I’m in debt

Yes I could go on and on and on
About the ways that this precedent mangles
The soul of democracy’s dead on the lawn
But we’re so distracted by the stars and the spangles

Because if money is speech
Then speech is money
And I could talk my way
Into a spending spree
Yes I’ll turn every vent
Into checks for the rent
No chatter too idle
For idolatry

For money and speech to reach equivalency
Then the power has to flow in both directions
Can’t have a one-way current for the currency
That belies a fundamental misconception

Because if money is speech
Then speech is money
Both have to be true
At the end of the day
So let it be known
You can take out a loan
And then read the phone book
So you don’t have to pay
And really
What else is there to say

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