Take The Cash

from Take The Cash by The Moral High Ground

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‘Take The Cash’ is an introspective and reflective memoire seen through the lens of bandleader/songwriter Danny Smartt, as he navigates his new way of life during lockdown.

Forced out of his job as a sound engineer as the result of venue closures, Smartt explains that his circumstance led him not to be able to qualify for the government self-employment grant,"I got a job at a supermarket [at the start of lockdown] to pay the bills and I found £20 on the shop floor. I kept it but I felt like a dick.”

'Take The Cash’ was written during a time when we couldn't get away from the words 'fake news' and we gathered secondhand information via our friend’s-housemate’s-brother’s-colleague’s-auntie. “It's also about being frustrated with people who think they suddenly know everything”, Smartt adds, "It’s okay to have no idea what’s going on.”

Held together through a muscular production and a thread of melancholy, as if you’ve taken both a sip of coffee and camomile tea, 'Take The Cash' sits next to a music video produced by Little Wind Productions and shot at SET Woolwich. The music video depicts an intrusion unfolding during a support meeting of sorts, following people resorting to unhealthy solutions to their problems as the meeting descends into chaos and disarray.

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Is that what all the worrying was for?
You kept all of the money that you found on the shop floor
Well I knew you couldn’t handle the guilt
It was eating you alive
Who would have thought you were the type to take the cash and turn your eye?

Look man, don’t gloat
We’re all in the same sinking boat
It’s no fun to hear your theories on why we’ve run
Out of luck
Not everything’s a cover up

Let’s play cards are you a betting man, am I?
Well I could just be tonight
Things are different now
It’s the first day of the rest of our lives
So tell me how will you spend your time?
What’s the weather like on planet you?
Is it all true? What I saw you say online

What a lovely afternoon
Why would you choose to stay in your room?
How much longer will you wait for you know it’s the perfect day for
Positive thinking
Cause there sure ain’t a lot of it going around since you skipped town
There’s a sense that all these strange events mean that we’re finished now

credits

from Take The Cash, released April 1, 2022
Danny Smartt - Guitar, Bass, Vocals
Alex Shave - Keys
Freddie Taylor - Drums
Nick Gauntlett - Guitar Solo

Recorded by Danny Smartt

Mixed and Mastered by Ryan Wood at 105mm Studios

Artwork by Viacheslav Lapshin

The Moral High Ground / Glasshouse Records 2022

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