The Bank
This is a song about Cheryl's experience when she refinanced her mortgage. She was amazed at the difference between the smiling faces in the commercials and the actual people who work on your mortgage.
Cheryl often dedicates this song to Fleet Mortgage, the people who handled her mortgage. At one folk festival, she dedicated the song as usual, and somebody noticed that Fleet Mortgage was one of the sponsors of the festival.
Early in 2001,
Cheryl played at a concert where
Compass Bank
was one of the sponsors.
When introducing this song,
Cheryl made some comment about the fact that Compass was sponsoring the festival,
and that she was sure that it wasn't like the bank in this song.
Nevertheless,
the bank was very upset and contacted Cheryl's booking agent.
Cheryl was wondering what they wanted the agency to do,
once the show was over.
She suggested maybe she would write a song for Compass.
Something like "this bank is better than the airline" or something.
Cheryl now sometimes dedicates the performance of this song
to both Fleet and Compass banks.
Lyrics
- We're the Bank
- Words And Music By
- Cheryl Wheeler
- We're the Bank. We're not your friend. We want those records
- And we want them sent this afternoon
- Or your gross expenses will balloon
- And you'll only have yourself to thank
- Write "attention clerk", 'cause it's the way we work
- And we're the bank
- We're the bank, get a grip, get in line
- And in triplicate we'll need for sure
- Everything you've ever signed before
- As to cost we haven't mentioned yet to you
- You can bet on one thing,
- You'll be at the closing when we do
- Your tax returns are ours to keep, with what you earn
- Until the final sleep, and even then
- We've assured ourselves, at your expense,
- Crossing t's and dotting all the i's
- To be paid in full within a day or two
- Of your demise
- And we will call, a million times, for bills and forms
- That you will never find, and we'll insist
- That without these we cannot progress
- When we have these documents in hand
- We'll assess time lost and probably raise your cost
- By several grand
- We are the bank, with walls of stone, and heads of steel
- And though in ads we're shown to smile and nod
- This is PR if there ever was
- So just forget that warm and friendly bit
- Because I swear by god, it's a complete and utter
- Crock of shit
- (P) February 2, 1999
- Penrod And Higgins Music / Amachrist Music
- ACF Music Group
- International Copyright Reserved
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