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"You're better off broke with soup in your bellyThan sitting there hungry around a pot of gold."Thus begins the new album, Instead The Forest Rose To Sing. I decided to start things off with Better Off Broke, as the album as a whole is a collection of songs interwoven together around the question: "What is the value of our work? And what the hell is 'wealth' exactly?"There's a million different ways that we conceptualize money. Money is fundamentally a symbolic notion, a representative idea. For some people it represents the hours they've spent behind their desk. For some it represents the education of their children. For some it represents their own luxury and comfort. For some it's their security and insulation from the uncertainties of the world. For others, the money is their ticket to engage with the powers that be to try and have some measure of control over the uncertainties of the world. And for some, the money itself is just a trophy. It just represents winning a game.Tracks listing:1. Better Off Broke2. Swing Me Down3. Grampa Built Bridges4. Southland Street5. Two Timing Bank Robber's Lament6. Firestorm7. Serpentine Cycle of Money 8. Oh Bally Ho9. Accidentally Daisies10. The Night's Beginning To ShineMet dank aan Motormuijs