Affluence and Anxiety
I realized today how many lives I need to morph into one. Living at a New England boarding school, being a trad music playing, wannabe indie musician, after buying a house, getting an MA in some environmental thing, 2 kids (well, not AFTER--they're quite present) I am attempting to makes worlds converge. I should say that I've been trying to do this for years. When it comes down to it, you can take the boy out of suburbia, but you can't take suburbia out of the boy. Even in my underlying rebellion against the status quo, I am pursuing more education while financing a "safe" AWD station wagon for the family. And do I love it? Of course I do. Is there shame in loving the illusion of affluence? OK, so see the song below that I co wrote with Michelle Simpson-Siegel (relation? hmm). It will be on the new CD that will probably be out in October (that's self promotion). OK, the baby is crying. gotta go.


White Picket Fence

McCarthy kept us safe, so did my mom
with her atom bomb smile
Affluence and anxiety filled her cup
With a shot of denial.


Our wealth was built like a house of cards.
Still is, if you ask me.
We know the cost of everything and the value of nothing
The worlds waits for us to let it be.

chorus
Boxed up boxed in living this way you'd swear it's a sin

There's a price to pay for all our stuff
and it ain't just out of pocket.
Living with affluence and anxiety
is like having a picnic on a nuke rocket.

Yeah, we've sure got a problem.--I think they call it dissonance.
Our heads and our hearts rarely align.
That's why everyone's so fucked up,
Walking round sayin' they're fine.

Now China wants it all
And they'll get it of course --A revolution w'o force
They'll come to see sex as a cash cow and sex as a sin
same old stuff will box them in

I've got a right to 24hr hour news, the right my drive my car
the right to bare my cell phone (the right to the www, right to my cell phone)
Affluence and Anxiety fills my cup
My White picket fence was bought with a long term loan