Yes, yes…directing again. Seems, I can´t stop, because I have far too much fun with it…
This time, I was looking for a way to express the problems, many of us (including me) suffer from, since COVID put all of our economies under strong pressure.
Since the pandemia started in March 2020, hopes and dreams were shattered and many people lost their jobs or their intire existence, especially, when they were shop owners, independent service providers of any kind or employees at small companies, restaurants or hotels.
I thought about some ways, to give them a voice, but the right idea didn´t came up, until by chance, I heard an old song, I hadn´t thought about in years.
It was “Money´s too tight to mention” by Simply Red.
And it was almost perfect. A few changes in the lyrics were necessary, but over all, it was like the band had known in advance, what was there to come many years later… So…Curtains up!
MONEY´S TOO TIGHT TO MENTION
I´ve been laid off from work my rent is due
But me and the cats….we need some food!
So I went to the bank to see, what they could do.
They said “Son, looks like bad luck got a hold on you!”
Money´s too tight to mention!
I can´t get an unemployment extension…Money´s too tight to mention!
I went to my brother, to see what he could do.
He said “Brother, I´d like to help, but I´m unable to!”
So I called on my father, oh my father, my old father…
He said:
“Money´s too tight to mention!”
Oh, money, money, money, money…
“Money´s too tight to mention…I can´t even qualify for my pension!”
We´re talking about tensed economies and the virus that kills.
Vaccine´s still on the horizon for us. Are we living to get it? Maybe, we never will!
Money´s too tight to mention!
Oh, money, money, money, money!
We´re talking about money, money!
We´re talking about money, money!
We´re talking about money, money!
Money, money, money!
We´re talking about the dollar bill.
And that old man, that´s over the hill.
Now what are we all to do?
When money and this virus got a hold on you?
Money´s too tight to mention!
Oh, money, money, money, money!
Money´s too tight to mention!
Dinero`money oh!
We´re talking about money, money and
We´re talking about COVID, COVID!
Yeah, it´s COVID too!
We´re talking about money, money!
Did the earth stop for you COVID?
Did the world stop for you COVID?
Just because of you?
Did our world stop for you COVID?
Yeah, I´m asking you…
Yeah, I´m talking COVID!
Yeah, I´m asking you…
Are you satisfied now?
Most Lyrics from “Money´s too tight to mention” by Simply Red