Money Doesn't Matter Anymore
After our first week in quarantine back in March, My wife Mary Ellen and I were coming to grips with the eerie reality of our circumstance. Like the rest of the country (and the world) our anxiety was beginning to run a bit high. Then the financial crisis started to get real which only made matters worse. We began to hear numbers like $2-3 trillion dollars coming out of Washington when just last year congress couldn’t order a pizza without debate. Unemployment was going through the roof as hundreds of thousands of people were getting sick and far too many were dying. We stopped watching the news and tried to limit our intake of online click-bait while trying stay alert, informed and unruffled.
Mary Ellen got busy making face masks. I wrote a song.
With all the madness swirling around us, we should focus on the beautiful stories of people helping one another especially the selfless doctors, nurses, EMS workers and first responders who haven’t missed a beat. But also, the anonymous business owners that paid the water bill for an entire town in Indiana; a flower delivery service in NYC giving away bouquets to people stuck at home; all across the country students are volunteering to shop for the elderly and sewing groups making masks; restaurants are supplying food to hospital workers and stores are waiving fees.
“Kindness is contagious” was written in chalk on a sidewalk in San Diego. Neighbors are helping neighbors. If any good at all can come from this let it be that we reconsider what is important, really important in life.
So, I offer you this song. A bit of satire and a sing-along to lift your spirits. I cowrote it with my pal Michael Sansonia and enlisted the help of a bunch of musical colleagues from coast to coast: Paul Rolnick, LaJuan Carter, Mike Sansonia, Vaneese Thomas, Mike Malfesi, Carolee Goodgold, Adam Falcon, Emily Bindiger, Tim Quick, Mary Ellen Bernard, Matt Meade, John Menitti, Rob Barics and Butch Jones. Thank you all!
I invite you to do some social distance-sing on your own. Crank it up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zumhHCWqGeg
