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What's Happened to Us

from Beautiful World by Neil Okeson

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What's happened to us?

We used to have a good life
Now all the money's gone
I'm feeling so afraid now
Don't know how we’re gonna get along.

We were once so proud
Of our little house,
Now they wanna foreclose and throw us out.
I just can't believe
this is my country.
What's happened to us?

My Jenny's working part time
By the hour $6.25
I used to frame up houses
Now it's four years since I was fired.

I don't ask for much
But I'm out of luck,
I'm praying for something good to come.
Cause we can't get by
We can't survive
What's happened to us?

They say the bankers stole the billions
And the politicians looked the other way.
Now there’s people by the millions
Are losing everything they saved.

I don't understand
How in this land
We seemed to stopp caring for our fellow man.
Where's our brotherhood?
for common good?
What's happened to us?
What's happened to us in the U.S.?

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from Beautiful World, released October 24, 2015

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Neil Okeson New York, New York

Neil Okeson is a Brooklyn based singer-songwriter and composer whose compositions reflect his urban homestead and his upstate New York studio; songs that live in a real world – one full of wonder, love, and even some human sadness. Neil composes music for film as well as writing and performing what he calls ‘contemporary protest music’. He can be found gigging the the NYC metro area. ... more

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