Be the Change

from Be the Change/You Let Me Down by The Swing Bot

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Less than a year after his debut #electroswing LP on Freshly Squeezed and THE SWING BOT has not been resting. Despite notching up over 6 million streams on Spotify alone with this, already we're here with the 7th and 8th songs since. Now combining predominantly very early vocal jazz and swing, cut up and recontextualised with hip hop and minimal house beats, the likes of Count Basie and (here) Billie Holiday are sampled.

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lyrics

They say don't change the old for the new
But I've found out that this will never do
When you grow old you don't last long
You're here today and then tomorrow you're gone
I loved a man for many years gone by
I thought his love for me would never die
He made some changes that would never do
From now on I'm goin' to make some changes too

For there's a change in the weather
There's a change in the sea
From now on there'll be a change in me
My walk will be different, my talk and my name
Nothin' about me is goin' to be the same
I'm goin' to change my way of livin' if that ain't enough
Then I'll change the way that I strut my stuff
'Cause nobody wants you when you're old and gray
There'll be some changes made today
There'll be some changes made

For there's a change in the weather
There's a change in the sea
From now on there'll be a change in me
My walk will be different, my talk and my name
Nothin' about me is goin' to be the same
I'm goin' to change my way of livin' if that ain't enough
Then I'll change the way I strut my stuff
Nobody wants you when you're old and gray
There'll be some changes made today
Be some changes made

I'm goin' to change my way of livin' if that ain't enough
Then I'll change the way that I strut my stuff
'Cause nobody wants you when you're old and gray
There'll be some changes made today
There'll be some changes made

credits

from Be the Change/You Let Me Down, released January 5, 2024
Composed by: Billy Higgins, Benton Overstreet
Lyrics by: Billy Higgins
Produced by: The Swing Bot

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