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NEW JERSEY CONDO BLUES (breetveld)

from SOUND RECORDINGS (2017 remix) by The Breetles

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NEW JERSEY CONDO BLUES
North Village apartment
On the Eastern side
Built over a landfill and lined up side-by-side
We’ll spend the day in the sun on my roof
in elegant coaches
We’ll spend the night on the floor of my room
and we can hunt roaches
I feel so wrong paying rent when there’s no heat on
This is the life
A life you cannot expect to come cheaply
That’s what you get
When you sign that lease, you count the least

This once was New Jersey,
we called the Garden State
Where flowers and farmland grew,
now condos in their place
You spend your life in a job and invest
in corporate ventures
You’re so obsessed with your need to succeed
your life is indentured
Greed must have won
No space between malls on route #1
This ain’t no life
My parents worked hard to escape from the city
That’s what you want
That farm has some room,
soon it’s: “Shops Coming Soon!”

We’ll spend less time in the sun on my roof
without respirators
Between the smoke and the fog and the soot
and corporate raiders
I can’t believe
that no one stands for their right to breathe
This is the life
A life you’ve got to protect from bulldozers - ahh
That’s what you want
Don’t give up so fast, relax on the grass
©1992 The Breetles pub. Breet Music BMI

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from SOUND RECORDINGS (2017 remix), released June 30, 2017
Chris Breetveld-drums, piano, bass, electric piano, organ, strings, acoustic guitars, lead & backing vocals

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The Breetles Princeton, New Jersey

The Breetles, an American power-pop band, are Chris Breetveld and anyone who plays Breetles songs, with or without him. They became one of the founding rocks of the "Kendall Park (New Jersey) Sound" starting around 1982. They have been described as the illegitimate flower-child of The Who, The Beatles, XTC, The Kinks, Mrs. Miller and Cheap Trick. Power-pop, cleverly-stupid, quiet is the new loud. ... more

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