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Music, Lyrics, All Instruments, Vocal: Jan Schonander
Music, Vocal: REKHA IYERN [Fe] https://soundcloud.com/rekha-iyern-fe
All sounds except the drums are Nord Stage 3 native.
Anything wrong with right now? It is sometimes easy to fall into the trap of thinking that everything was better before, especially as a parent. Thought I'd look up some statistics and see how things stack up vs around 30 years ago. Turns out violent crime is down by over 50% since a high in the early 90s - property crime is also down by 40% - of course there is nothing about that meaning we shouldn't strive to improve further and try to get back to the even lower rates in the 60s. Like the crime rate, the poverty rate fluctuates a lot, but in 1990 it was estimated that 13.5% of the US population lived under the poverty line whereas in 2021 it had been reduced by 14% to 11.6%. In this song I have focused a bit on hard to measure things like the choices a lot of people have today compared to before, in terms of finding their own path vs being set on a path by parents and, importantly, the choice to love who you want. So, we are safer, less poor and have more freedom, but overall happiness levels in the US are apparently at the lowest level in 50 years. Given that the US is predominately a middle class society this might be explained by a fifty year trend of increasing income inequality. The wealthy and poor are better off economically but for a very large swath of the US population things have become more difficult. Clearly there are things to work on. Nevertheless, in many ways, especially with a longer perspective we are so much better off today vs before.
THIS TIME
Talk about the past
About early and late
What might happen
They say it was better
You gotta watch your watch
Soon it’ll all pass you by
Why can’t you be like them
Perfect, always
Right there, right now
I feel it, I need it
I feel it, l need it, I’ve got it
I feel it, I need it, I’ve got it, I want it, I love it
Love
In this time black or white
I could choose a boy
I think I’ll choose a girl
At this time or any other time
I choose, I choose what to say
I think, I don’t have to care
For this time I might be there
I could change my mind
I think I’ll change my mind, yeah
Right now
I feel it, I need it
Right now
I feel it, l need it, I’ve got it
I feel it, I need it, I’ve got it, I want it, I love it
Love
Yeah, oh yeah....
In this time
At this time
For this time
- Genre
- Synth Rock