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Aptly produced amidst a recession, MONEY TREE$ is part modern money chant, part capitalism critique. How does one balance the belief of potential abundance while acknowledging current and historic material conditions? Reckoning with their relationship to money, BELOVED SUN speaks of “smelling money” in rooms and being turned off while “chasing forty acres.” MONEY TREE$ blends juxtaposing beliefs as well as seemingly opposing sounds – experimental r&b/rap meets hypnotizing Pakistani-style humming.
lyrics
Money, money, money got me feeling fly
Money, money, money got me catching flights
Money, money, money, yes I'm on my way
Money, money, money, oh just please behave
No more overdrafting fees on me
Put it in the ground grew a money tree
Breaking bread with bodies
We just tryna get free
If I do say so myself
Buying rounds of shots for the table to my right
Faking that I'm rich til I'm taking private flights
Righting all my wrongs so the credit looking nice
If I do say so myself
Money, money, money got me feeling fly
Money, money, money got me catching flights
Money, money, money, yes I'm on my way
Money, money, money, oh just please behave
I put green on my plate
I see green in your eyes
I was taught that money is the root of all demise
But rent is money
And food is money
My time is money
Ain't nothing funny
But wealth is of the mind and the spirit
They say you can make anything happen if you just think it
What you do with that knowledge, you swim or sinking
You can make anything happen if you just think it
Money had my pops skipping a meal just to feed his table
I know money when it's greedy
I know money when it's able
Wealth is of the mind and the spirit
They say you can make anything happen if you just think it
Well I see banana trees waving at me
While I'm driving a green jeep
Beep beeping baby
Money, money, money got me feeling fly
Money, money, money got me catching flights
Money, money, money, yes I'm on my way
Money, money, money, oh just please just behave
Looking so green from the bottom to the top
That my heart won't stop leading north, bleeding moss
Spoke to the river, I'm collecting all my crops
I swear these hexes is getting uncrossed
Chasing 40 acres til my wishes come a'true
Opening my palms, I'm diluting all that's blue
Calling all that's blessed, ain't just money we'll accrue
I swear these chains is getting unlocked
Money, money, money got me feeling fly
Money, money, money got me catching flights
Money, money, money, yes I'm on my way
Money, money, money, oh just please behave
While I sit and contemplate and put my faith in the invisible
Skip some meals today and run this promo
Wins ain't physical
I walk into these rooms and smell money and it turns me off
This ain't the life I want
But these needs, love, they always cost
They know it
Their love ain't never free and they show it
Conflicted cause I have a big ass heart full of emotion
They love it so damn much
But all they do is exploit it
I'm annoyed and anointed
Everything is fucking money
We turn everything to profit
Even prophets turn to profit
Mimicking and all this mocking
While we filling up our pockets
Praying
Nobody is watching
And when nobody is watching
I don't feel at all accomplished
Watching time wash all my honest
Big stepper
Pepper on my mango while I'm pushing on
Dismantle all my anger with some lovely songs
I can't relate, you can't relate, we get along
From place to place
We face to face
We turn everything to profit
Even prophets turn to profit
Mimicking and all this mocking
While we filling up our pockets
Praying
Nobody is watching
And when nobody is watching
I don't feel at all accomplished
Watching time wash all my honest
credits
released June 19, 2023
Produced by Sol Galeano
Engineered by Audio Butter
Experimental Queer duo composed of musician Sol Galeano and poet Artist Named You. Explicitly genreless and incessantly
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