Track #4 – Miss Money

Recorded -

Basic Track – September 4, 7 and 8, 2012

Vocals – January 22 and May 9, 2013

Additional guitar including solo – January 24, 2013

“Nickels” and “1,2,3, go” intro - May 6 and November 16, 2013

Backstory -

Back in 2010, I had few ideas on where to go with my second album. One exception to this rule was a song idea that later morphed into “Miss Money”. I wanted to write an abrasive and fast-paced number and give it a mock-fancy title like “Missus Knickerbocker”. I finally got around to making a rough demo of “Miss Money” as well as three other songs in the summer of 2011.

By 2012, I had enough ideas that “Miss Money” wound up being one of the first recorded songs for “Breaking Through The Glass”. Inspired by 1970's pub and punk rock, and with the ever dominant theme of financial troubles on the brain, I aimed for a raw and gritty vocal performance and one-take wonderful guitar parts.

Lyrics -

Miss Money's gone and left me, and she's left me with no dough, and I'm...

Getting to the point where I'm desperate and poor, and I'm wishing she didn't have to take it all!

And she's left me with no money, to even buy some clothes, and I'm...

Drinking shower water just to kill my hunger, eating stale bread, got no bed, and they took my refrigerator!

Pre-Chorus - Why did Miss Money have to go away?

Since she's been gone I'm slipping and I'm sliding into debt, and

I'm going broke (x4)

Chorus – She's gone away for good and she's kicked me to the curb.

Now I'm stranded and I'm cracking up and I'm pinching for a dime.

Now she's kicked me out of my house, 'cuz I couldn't pay the rent, now I'm...

Left out in the cold, had to sell my clothes, everything I'm wearing is torn and frayed!

Now I'm dancing for some nickels, and selling my soul for a dime, oh I...

Can't afford no shoes, now I'm barefoot, living on the street, blisters on my feet, they're mangled and bloody!

(Pre-chorus and chorus)

Miss Money's gone and left me, she's left me with no dough,

and I'm getting to the point where I'm desperate and poor, and

I'm going broke (x8)

All music and lyrics are Copyright 2014 – Rob Weiss Music.