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still surprised that song won our poll
― Euler, Sunday, 16 June 2013 23:11 (ten years ago) link
well it's a great line because it's comparing the shit actual real working people have to go through with the thoughtless news prose bullshit that doesn't effect all of the people who cause that economy to go tits up. 'on account of the economy' is like an act of god - something actual working people can never deal with or fight.
so yeah, deceptively good line.
― Jamie_ATP, Sunday, 16 June 2013 23:48 (ten years ago) link
oh that was a terrible sentence. sorry BROOCE.
other options
"Lately there ain't been much work / on account of the failure of Reaganomics"
"Lately there ain't been much work / on account of the passage of NAFTA"
"Lately there ain't been much work / on account of the bust of the housing bubble"
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 17 June 2013 02:40 (ten years ago) link
"Lately there ain't been much work / on account of my plug going upstate"
― ramona & yeezus (some dude), Monday, 17 June 2013 03:04 (ten years ago) link
No "I've been workin' all week I'm up to my neck in hock," no credibility.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 17 June 2013 10:17 (ten years ago) link
Well, I got a job and tried to put my money away/But I got debts that no honest man can pay
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 June 2013 12:04 (ten years ago) link
Prefer doing a little favor for this guy I met last night
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Monday, 17 June 2013 12:09 (ten years ago) link
"Used to bag work in VA at the Econo Lo / Now I'm laying out at the Delano though"
― dylannn, Monday, 17 June 2013 12:26 (ten years ago) link
" I got debts that no honest man can pay"
he uses this line in two songs, right?
great line
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 17 June 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
he must have high-fived himself when he wrote that
Please note that Bruce will also "work for your love."
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 17 June 2013 17:36 (ten years ago) link
Pumpin' 4 the Man
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Monday, 17 June 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
" I got debts that no honest man can pay"he uses this line in two songs, right?great line
two songs on the same album even, so he wasn't trying to hide it
― iatee, Monday, 17 June 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
he must have high-fived himself when he wrote that― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist),
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist),
Imagining Bruce clapping in the studio
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 13:12 (ten years ago) link
this must dohttp://i25.tinypic.com/2582vpx.jpg
― battle hyrr of the shepublic (m bison), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 13:20 (ten years ago) link
i love "on account of the economy"!
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
me too, ftr
― ramona & yeezus (some dude), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
feel like it's an easily regurgitatible soundbite from pundits that an unemployed person from the 80s would use in a bar as an oversimplified excuse. and it's the way he sort of belts the line with extra drama that sells it with irony
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:30 (ten years ago) link
or at least it's something an imaginary bruce working class gentleman would use
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:31 (ten years ago) link
― ramona & yeezus (some dude), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:31 (ten years ago) link
now just imagine clarence clemons belting that line in the .gif above
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:44 (ten years ago) link
i think a more pointed and poignant line about that shadowy scapegoat known as "the economy" is "hiring man said 'son if it was up to me.'" it's saying the same thing as the line in "the river," but this time there's someone actually saying it rather than it just being so. it's a human moment and it's delivered nonjudgmentally. should we be angry at the hiring man, or should we feel sorry for him too?
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 23:49 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
I realise I forgot to put in "construction, at the Jonestown company" as a poll option.
― If you tolerate Bis, then Kenickie will be next (ithappens), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 08:48 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 20 June 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
Was emailing with a friend of mine in France and mentioned that I'm looking for a teaching job but don't expect to find one for next year because hardly any jobs are being posted. She just emailed back to ask why, and honestly the best I can do is, "Uh, idk, the economy?"
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 28 June 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
"At the rendering plant (it ain't gonna make me rich)" was robbed
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Sunday, 28 June 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link