Fads (The Way The Money Goes)

© Sept 2011 Fort Creek Songs

Here's a new-ish one. 

The intro to this song started as a riff for The Octoberists that was never

fully fleshed out. With Amber's cello soloing over top, it gave the song 

a haunting, plaintive feel.  I actually based the riff on 4 notes from the 

Aria from Bach's Goldberg Variations. When I brought it to Porter, Jay took 

it into an entirely different direction with a sinister line he played under it. 

Rachelle and Carl both have pretty intense solos in this one with Rachelle 

really going off at the bottom end and Carl screaming out some high notes. 

After the intro it slows right down into a Neil Young (Cortez the Killer) type song.

The Way the Money Goes
Sept. 30, '11
 

Em                       Bm7
Daylight broke in gently.

Am7                              G
Roused her up out of her bed.
With delicate fingers waking
Passing through the hair on her head
 
The silence of the morning lay across 

the house like a blanket of wool
She wrapped those fingers around a cup of tea
And sidled to the windowsill.
 
Chorus:

(Some D chord)           Cmaj7
All              the          people

D-ish chord                         Cmaj7
Chasing the fads like they're hungry ghosts

D-ish chord                        G
That's the way the money goes.
 
Pacing across the apartment at night
He had a lot of words stuck in his head
Questioning the pieces of his little life
To be of use before he was dead
 
She hid some coins in the cushions of the couch
So he could get a bite to eat
Streetlights go out one by one
As she passes underneath.

Chorus:

All the people

Chasing the fads like they're hungry ghosts

That's the way the money goes