All Around the World

Music & Lyrics by Garland Jeffreys

From the album The King of In Between (Luna Park Records, 2011)

Clear heads materialize

But only true hearts can feel

Discovering where the truth lies

And separate the fake from real

This property is condemned

And so are the people who live here

The story seems to have no end

And nobody appears

To be sincere

All around the world

We feel it

We reveal it

You conceal it

But don’t you steal it

Ordinary people

Whoever you chance to meet

We’re trying to make it through each day

Trying hard to make a life complete

It’s happening again and again

You got to fight the power

What gives here

The stories seem to have no end

And nobody appears

To be sincere

All around the world

We feel it

We reveal it

You conceal it

Don’t you steal it

All around the world

We feel it

We reveal it

You conceal it

Don’t you steal it

Put your money in a mattress

Put your money in a hideaway

Don’t be foolish like the actress

Who lost everything

Bankers on the brink of disaster

Jumping out of windows

They’re moving much faster

Used to be a universe master

But now they lost everything

Lost everything