Membership Fee

Name: Membership Fee
Duration: 253 s
Description: Membership Fee by mBaileyz. From the artist’s lyric sheet: “They don’t see the math I do every single night How I stretch a dollar till it scream, till it fight…”

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Intro

Yeah… lights still on… barely…

Verse 1

Overtown raised me, taught me how to stretch a dollar Now the old corner spot got marble floors and a juice bar They call it “wellness,” charge two hundred just to walk in Same place my uncle used to lift free weights after clockin’ Single mom at twenty-eight, three jobs, two kids asleep FPL envelope sittin’ on the counter lookin’ mean I swipe the card I can’t afford, smile for the ‘Gram reel While the rent notice in my purse got a different kind of feel

Pre-chorus

They don’t see the math I do every single night How I stretch a dollar till it scream, till it fight How I pray the check hits before the lights go black How I keep my voice steady when I’m breakin’ in the back

Chorus

Membership fee and the lights still on Membership fee and we still here, strong They can raise the rent but they can’t raise the bond Membership fee and the lights still on

Verse 2

Trainer in Lululemon talkin’ ’bout “self-care” While the lady who cleaned the mats can’t even pay bus fare They put a smoothie bar where the corner store used to be Now the kids ask why the bodega don’t got no more keys I been doin’ this dance since I was seventeen Single mom at twenty-one, still ain’t seventeen But every time the lights flicker I remember why I fight For the little hands that reach for me in the middle of the night

Pre-chorus 2

They don’t see the nights I cried in the dark When the bill was due and I ain’t have the heart To tell ’em we might have to move again But I found a way, like I always do, my friend

Chorus 2

Membership fee and the lights still on Membership fee and we still here, strong They can raise the rent but they can’t raise the bond Membership fee and the lights still on

Bridge

I don’t need much… just the lights to stay Just the fridge to hum… just the kids to play Just a little more time… just a little more grace Just the power to stay on… in this place

Chorus

Membership fee and the lights still on, choir: still on Membership fee and we still here, strong, choir: still strong They can raise the rent but they can’t raise the bond, choir: can’t raise the bond Membership fee… and the lights… still… on…

Outro

Yeah… lights still on… barely… But they on.

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