Languaging the place is happening
A voicestro of ideas
And involvement
Obstructing legislation
Command and finance
The handling of its own press
Pressing solutions
In the middle of a fraud
Yet in all time
A take part type of gal and guy
Suppose a person asked a city for funding around rent for themselves, an office, range of ten thousand a month
Today cresting 5 billion in debt of unauthorized hijacking of home development law
The auction began and I could feel my pulse patter,
If I don't get this house, my heart it may shatter.
I got my ducks in a row, when I saw the sale poster,
It's been a ride to get here, a real rollercoaster.
You see, the house was my Mama's, but she got in a rut,
The bank foreclosed, on the mortgage contract.
They kicked her out, it was such a calamity.
She was ashamed and embarrassed, questioning her sanity.
The sale day is here, and there is a huge crowd.
I must be the winner, for crying out loud.
The bids were swift, and the sale price kept rising,
I kept raising my paddle, I'd lost track of the pricing.
My hopes began to plummet, but the auctioneer said Sold,
He called my number, my bid had been bold.
I yelled "I won!" and I caught my Mama's eye.
She would have her home back, I knew that she would cry.
Today was a day that I will never forget,
Mama got her house back, and I have no regret.
If you should hear Tom Selleck spout
His irritating, "It turns out..."
It isn't a fluke
Just gobbledygook
Intended to smother your doubt
Be of good cheer, you're breathing aren't you
What else do you need, a million or two
Let's not be greedy
Not one of the needy
Be satisfied, forget about the mortgage zoo
I had a friend who’s grandfather died someway
The government stole his home away
For his grandmother had Alzheimer’s disease
Think not for herself anymore if you please
So they stole her home to pay for her care
Don’t you think that is so unfair
Grandfather worked hard all his life
To buy a nest for grandmother, his wife
Three boys and a lass too, I am told
So he toiled all his life to buy their abode
Then the government stole it to pay all the fee’s
Because grandmother had Alzheimer’s disease
The government changed all the rules
They treat the hoi polloi like fools
We payed for our care once in the taxes of life
Then they pulled the rug from grandmother his wife
Who had Alzheimer’s disease, to pay all the fee’s
They stole her abode and they put on the squeeze
Grandfather did toil all his life
He toiled for his children and wife
All he did invest, to secure them a nest
Then the government stole it away
There’s a lesson in life to be learned
Be careful with what you have earned
If you have any worth at the end of the day
Then the government will steal it away
There once was a mortgage bank broker
Who sold mortgages more than he oughta
Then one day he found
With the economy down
His own house appraised way under water
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