Amy Speace is a songwriter. A graduate of Amherst College and a former touring member of the National Shakespeare Company she now lives in East Nashville, Tennessee. In The New York Times article, ‘A Singer-Songwriter, Just Trying to Make Do’, she describes the economic impact of gentrification on the lives of artists and the inspiration for her new song, ‘Spent’.
“…many of us working-class musicians, painters, artists and writers live a precarious financial existence of our own choosing. When I got together with Neilson Hubbard, a writer and producer, to write a song about a financial turning point, it was easy for us to look around at ourselves and find our subject matter.”
Come take my hand let’s walk to the end of this rainbow
Do you think that we’ll ever know
Where to find all that gold
Once I heard someone singing a dream we could have and hold
Something of our own
A place to call home
We’re head over heels
In over our heads
We borrow and steal to pay the rent
How we gonna save any money when it’s already spent
Years keep rolling the houses keep falling like dominoes
They’re throwing up condos
The for the old
It’s not enough to hear your own song on the radio
When your credit is far below
What they need for a loan
We’re head over heels
In over our heads
We borrow and steal to pay the rent
How we gonna save any money when it’s already spent
Can we stay or do we have to go
Could this be the end of the road
How we gonna save any money…
We’re head over heels
In over our heads
We borrow and steal to pay the rent
How we gonna save any money when it’s already spent
Amy Speace/Nielson Hubbard 2015
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