lyrics: downside up

Downside up

 

 

Two kids in a park

sit at two ends of a board

up and down off the ground

see the seesaw bounce

it’s not a mystery

once you’ve seen it before

it’s old history

of the rich and the poor

 

See it’s the principle

of how to launch off a wave 

like a sailboat tacking

against the winds of change

 

The masses crash

as their assets collapse

but kings hold cash

and bear market contracts

 

Listen someone’s got to own

all the property foreclosing

But a king is patient

buying only when the blood is flowing

 

through the red streets

not till a panic is over

and all the dust has settled

and the manic are broken

 

and bankrupt

hey I’m just telling you the truth

if you don’t like it

you can complain till you’re blue

but the truth is the truth is the truth is what’s true

 

See it’s the principle

of how to launch off a wave 

like a sailboat tacking

against the winds of change

 

Yes it’s the principle

of how to launch off a wave 

like a sailboat tacking

against the winds of change

 

Two gamblers in a park

sit at two ends of a gameboard

up and down off the ground

see the seesaw bounce

it’s not a mystery

once you’ve seen it before

it’s old history

of the rich and the poor

  

The masses crash- upside down on their gambling debts

while kings hold cash (or better)

and hedge their bets

 

It’s a deflation 

AKA a credit crunch 

and some will starve

waiting for their next free lunch

cause they’re bad gamblers

in denial of their speculations

and full of desperate hope

for political salvations

 

but is someone going to bail out

that average taxpayer

you may be a dreamer

if you think friendly central bankers will save ya

wake up

and smell the corpses in the streets

New kings are rising

American dreamers are capsizing

and the economies of Asia

are quietly ripening  

 

Yes it’s the principle

of how to launch off a wave 

like a sailboat tacking

against the winds of change

 

The west is rich

and the east is poor

but that can change

you know it has before

 

See it’s the principle

of how to launch off a wave 

like a sailboat tacking

against the winds of change 

 

 

Two nations trading in debt

sit on two sides facing war

back and forth the bench swings

till the lenders’ judge rules

(in the favor always of the IMF court) 

 

So, by the way, no

this is not about fairness or justice

those ideas are for the vain

who already have their full rewards:

 

See, they got lots of blame

and worship stories of betrayal

they play to be the biggest victims

as they name lots of villains

 

But I’ve been upside down

and now I’m downside up

I was naive- look, resentment

only hurt my own feelings

(and right there…

may be your only justice!)

 

Key to seesaw games is

to know when to get off
if you reach out when you’re high

you’d find a new bridge to cross 

 

See, this is the principle

of how to launch off a crashing wave 

like a sailboat gliding

behind are winds of change

 

The west was rich

and the east was poor

but that could change, right

who knows if it has before?