NEW ABNEY PARK MUSIC VIDEO "Work Hard" from the album Crash

Watch it here: https://youtu.be/fznfXfdYH1M

For the 2017 album Crash, I experimented with some more modern sounding songs, to see if there was any cross over potential. But then I never got around to making any music videos! So I'm fixing that now.

The song work hard is about how we are taught in schools, and by culture, that simply working hard towards your goals will make you successful, and ultimately rich.

But if that was once the case, it no longer is. With a very rare few exceptions, the rich are born rich, and people born poor stay poor.

In fact, it seems like the world is filled with traps designed to make a hard working person into a homeless person. One bad medical bill, or lawsuit, or tax problem, or bad home load, or car loan, can take away every dollar you've ever made, and leave you on the street.

...and as soon as you think you've got it all figured out, they change the rules.

LYRICS:

"Work Hard"

They told me to work hard

Never break, never play, I'm broken

In the schoolyard, I learned all the rules they've spoken

In my backyard, I've dreamed of a life I've fought for

So I worked hard, then they closed the back door.

I solved the impossible puzzles they gave me

But they Changed the rules, no way to save me

Fought all the fights, but the world forgave me

Wrapped up my dreams, and the world repaid me

Tell me how to balance all the troubles that come up

Overtime when my balances burn up

Drop to my knees, feel like I'm gonna throw up

they changed the game just as I started to come up

Follow the rules, do what you're told

And and your steps will lead you to gold

Make your own way, be your own man

But the world has another plan. (Plan, plan, plan...)

TThey told me to work hard

Never break, never play, I'm broken

In the schoolyard, I learned all the rules they've spoken

In my backyard, I've dreamed of a life I've fought for

So I worked hard, then they closed the back door.

I solved the impossible puzzles they gave me

But they Changed the rules, no way to save me

Fought all the fights, but the world forgave me

Wrapped up my dreams, and the world repaid me

Tell me how to balance all the troubles that come up

Overtime when my balances burn up

Drop to my knees, feel like I'm gonna throw up

they changed the game just as I started to come up

Follow the rules, do what you're told

And and your steps will lead you to gold

Make your own way, be your own man

But the world has another plan. (Plan, plan, plan...)

But the world has another plan. (Plan, plan, plan...)

But the world has another plan. (Plan, plan, plan...)