Moneyache

by Bird Machine

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‘Moneyache’, at times entrancing, and others urgent and commanding, is a shoegaze, dream pop track written for all the people feeling frustrated with any of life’s inequities. A lot of the lyrics were written on the bus home from work one day, while feeling a little jaded about my career choice and a bit trapped. The economic demands of life can be pressurising and this song addresses what many of us may feel and experience in the pursuit of happiness.
One lyric was inspired by a time I was busking outside a grocery store and a man who dropped a coin in my guitar case later came back out and told me he’d just given me his last dollar. I did ask if he wanted it back.

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Moneyache - Bird Machine Lyrics

I got a moneyache
The size of Manhattan
Went to sleep last night
Was asleep when it happened
You can see dust when you put me on the back
Forever rusting an endless set back
Congratulations

Pre-Chorus
I don’t know much but this much I know
Some trees are stubborn and refuse to grow
When others laden until double bent
I just gave you my last fifty cents

Chorus
If now is not a good time
If now is not a good time
If now is not a good time to ask for it back
If now is not a good time
If now is not a good time
If now is not a good time then when?

I got a moneyache
The size of Manhattan
Went to sleep last night
Was asleep when it happened
Holding your child when your belly still aches
Hard to believe in the money I make
Congratulations ooooh

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released August 26, 2022
Written & Produced by Bird Machine

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Bird Machine Hamilton, New Zealand

Bird Machine are Luke and Jenna Grbin, a pair of lovers from Geelong, Australia, and Hamilton, New Zealand. Combining distinct musical sensibilities, their songs reminisces on early 90s alt-rock with inflections of folk, wrapped up in plush pop melodies.
Vocals and instrumentation are composed, performed, recorded, and produced by the two in a little bedroom in the New Zealand suburbs.
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