Story Behind The Song
Addiction to consumption, debt, living lifestyles we can't afford regardless of the effects on the environment, serial monogamy / casual sex, disposable nature of everything
Song Description
The Kingmakers are a rockabilly/swing/jive/blues band from Ottawa, Canada, now working on their fourth album
| Song Length |
2:28 |
Genre |
R & B - Soul, R & B - Classic |
| Tempo |
Medium Fast (131 - 150) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Frantic, Outraged |
Subject |
Money, Addiction |
| Similar Artists |
James Brown, Elvis Costello |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1960 - 1969 |
| |
Lyrics
Pay It Off - C
Instrumental for the chorus
F C
Paying off one debt with another
All my sisters and my brothers
Paying off one debt with another
FFC FFC
You gotta pay it off - pay it off
START HERE:
Disposable lighters, disposable pens
Disposable diapers, when will it end
Disposable clothes, disposable hips
Disposable faces, disposable relationships
Throwing out the baby with the bath water
Walking on a fine, fine line
A generation more than any other
Running out of time
Chorus
Running in circles or haven't you heard
I can't see through the smog
Time to stop following the herd that's heard
Get off that high hog
Chorus - SOLO 2x
Foreign exchange, international debt
Some relief from domestic regret
Sorry it hasn't hit me yet
I guess it hasn't hit me yet