Name: Spare Change
Duration: P00H04M06S
Description: Prosperity songwriting challenge. This is about someone who has seemingly nothing in life having a conversation with someone who seemingly has everything. By the end the less fortunate person is asking for not just spare change as money, but as a societal change of our judgements.

Spare Change

by ghostbard

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Prosperity songwriting challenge. This is about someone who has seemingly nothing in life having a conversation with someone who seemingly has everything. By the end the less fortunate person is asking for not just spare change as money, but as a societal change of our judgements.

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Can you spare some change
My days are always the same
I got an empty cup
And an empty plate
When you see my face
Do you see a waste?
What would you say
If you could take my place?

We ain’t so different after all
Some of us just take some harder falls
Not everyone gets back up and stands
Some of us need a hand
Some of us need a plan
Some of us need to mend (we need to know it’s not the end)
All of us need a friend

Will you spare some time
Sit down and share your wine
Take off your coat
And be seen on my side
Of the tracks
Where the trains don’t go back
We could spend the night
Talking bout our paths

We ain’t so different after all
Some of us just take some harder falls
Not everyone gets back up and stands
Some of us need a hand
Some of us need a plan
Some of us need to mend
All of us need a friend

Could you spare some change
I mean the way you think
When you see someone
That looks out of sync
You don’t know my past
You didn’t know my dad
I don’t look down at you
For the things you have

We ain’t so different after all
Some of us just take some harder falls
Not everyone gets back up and stands
Some of us need a hand
Some of us need a plan
Some of us need to mend
All of us need a friend

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released February 28, 2021

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I'm a Ghost in the wind
I'm a sheet of a man
Give me a toast with your hand
And raise me an amen

"I'm A Ghost"
- Ghostbard

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