Poor Girls Dream

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Terri says

This song, lyrically is probably, to me, the most symbolic of my body of work up to this point in my career. It is a little more light hearted, with a bit of a “tongue in cheek” vibe, but musically I love the delta blues approach, especially the intro and outro. The banjo was run through an amp simulator, and the drum loop was made by hitting a music stand…a very organic and very real track. In real life, people struggle, and the very simplest things can make them feel like a million bucks…it is all relative…it’s not having what you want, it’s wanting what you have right?. Not always the case. In a lot of cases, the more you have, the more you want….and one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

Lyrics

Written by T Clark/T Shapiro/J Collins

She don’t dream of spring in Paris
Jettin off to Singapore
She just needs a quarter tank
To get her to the grocery store
She don’t buy filet mignon
She just wants some extra pork in her beans

It may not sound like much
But that’s the stuff that makes up a poor girls dream

She’s tired of haulin baskets
Down to the laundry mat
Dealin with the weirdos
And the stress of all of that
She’d rather put her dollar somewhere other than a washin machine

Well it may not sound like much
But that’s the stuff that makes up a poor girls dream
If you’ve got a million you want two
If you ain’t got nothin any little thing will do

She works on the clock
Punchin in & out for years
She’d like to take that double shift
And shift it down a gear
Go home and light a candle
Paint her toes a different color and just breathe

Well it may not sound like much
But that’s the stuff that makes up a poor girls dream
If you’ve got a million you want two
If you ain’t got nothin any little thing will do

A little piece of mind
Just a taste of what could be
It may not sound like much
But that’s the stuff that makes up poor girls dream

Yeah it may not sound like much
But that’s the stuff that makes up poor girls dream
A poor girls dream