"Only A Paycheque" - Anke Summerhill

Anke is one of the most loving people I know, and she recently came out with this video of a song she wrote years ago.

While the song has always touched folks, combined with videographer Bobby Lee Messer's work, it is amazing.

With all the stupidity going on in DC and the effects nationwide, here's hoping we can find some compassion.

Only A Paycheque -    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACRrmUhZMp8

Anke's You Tube page  https://www.youtube.com/@AnkeSummerhill/videos

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Only A Paycheque

Words and music by Anke Summerhill and Steve Barbee

Lisa doesn’t smile much anymore
She came home last Tuesday
Found the landlord at her door
But he wouldn’t take her rent late
And she had no way to pay
So she moved out Wednesday morning
But she’s got no place to stay

Darren cannot make a living
Down at Manny’s Bar & Grill
Thinks he should’ve gone to college
But he knows he never will
Now he asks me for a handout-
“Sister, can you spare a dime?
I’ve been out here almost three years
I’m about to lose my mind.”

Was it just an accident or misfortune
What forced them to live life this way
I fear I’ll join them when my money’s all gone
Sometimes I’m only a paycheque away

Bill and Linda have three children
But they’re living in a park
Where the youngest cries at shadows
That he sees there after dark
And they can hear train whistles blowing
All throughout the night ’till dawn
But now they don’t know who to turn to
And they’re not sure what went wrong

But sometimes at night if they drift off to sleep
They can live the American Dream
But when they wake up in a nightmare
That just won’t go away
It must take all their strength not to scream

Was it just an accident or misfortune
What forced them to live life this way
I fear I’ll join them when my money’s all gone
Sometimes I’m only a paycheque away
I fear I’ll join them when my money’s all gone
Sometimes I’m only a paycheque away