What's Wrong with This World
- Genre: Folk
- Time: 03:52
- Released: 7/8/2005
- Label:
- Album: Redwing
- Credits: Tom Atwood
- Artist: Tom Atwood
- Location: Illinois
- Sounds Like:
Song Information:
On the surface this song would seem to be taking a shot at American business, but it is really intended to be more spiritual than political. It was inspired by an online discussion about the existence of God I had with 'alley-oop,' an Internet friend.
WWWTW is not so much about business, as it is about 'busy-ness.' How sometimes we are so preoccupied with perceived reality--worldly things--that we have no time to consider ultimate reality. Sometimes business is a comforting distraction.
For those who say, "But, business makes the world go round!" I would suggest that what really makes the world go round is Something Else.
[Thanks to Peter Greenstone, Daphne Kalfon and Tom Schmitt (alley-oop) for additional lyrics. Thanks to Tom Schmitt for the artwork. Thanks also to the Wrong World Choir.]
LYRICS:
Business is what's wrong with this world/
Business is what's wrong with this world/
I ask, how are you?/
Busy, you reply/
I nod my head/
But I never ask why/
I never ask why/
Money is what's wrong with this world/
Money is what's wrong with this world/
Buy bigger houses/
Cars built like trucks/
So much to buy/
And we never ask why/
We never ask why/
I know a man named alley-oop/
He lives far away/
I asked alley-oop if God is real/
And listened to him say,/
"I don't think so/
But I don't really know/
I'd like to believe it, but/
I really have to go/
I really should be leaving.../
(chorus)
Business is what's wrong with this world/
Business is what's wrong with this world/
Business is what's wrong with this world/ etc ad lib out/
Song Lyrics:
Business is what's wrong with this world
Business is what's wrong with this world
I ask, how are you?
Busy, you reply
I nod my head
But I never ask why
I never ask why
Money is what's wrong with this world
Money is what's wrong with this world
Buy bigger houses
Cars built like trucks
So much to buy
And we never ask why
We never ask why
I know a man named alley-oop
He lives far away
I asked alley-oop if God is real
And listened to him say,
"I don't think so
But I don't really know
I'd like to believe it, but
I really have to go
I really should be leaving...
(chorus)
Business is what's wrong with this world
Business is what's wrong with this world
Business is what's wrong with this world, etc ad lib out
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