Love Is The New Rich

Joy is the new young
Love is the new rich
Hope is the new beautiful
Peace is the new fix
Love is the new rich [repeat section]
 
If we don't have love
If we don't have love
If we don't have love
We don't have anything
If we don't know love
If we don't know love
What it looks like to love
We don't know anything
 
Everybody goes for the money
Fame and fortune fade once you got it
All that lasts is Love Is The New Rich
Digs and diamonds don't last forever
Where your heart is there is your treasure
Live your life like Love Is The New Rich
 
It's beautiful tragic
to live in this age
Let's conquer the madness
Grace is the new rage
Love is the new rich
 
If we don't have love
If we don't have love
If we don't have love
We don't have anything
If we don't know love
If we don't know love
What it looks like to love
We don't know anything
 
Everybody goes for the money
Fame and fortune fade once you got it
All that lasts is Love Is The New Rich
Digs and diamonds don't last forever
Where your heart is there is your treasure
Live your life like Love Is The New Rich

words and music by Ellen Tift
©2010 Rock of Life Music

Fun Facts about this song:
-This song was released on a compilation with 29 other artists to raise money for Haiti after their earthquake, and Nashville after their flood. Other artists included Hot Chelle Rae, Dave Barnes, and Kevin Max from DC Talk.
-The first verse was based on the 4 Sundays of advent: Joy, Love, Hope, and Peace.
-The lyric rhymes "money" and "got it" in the chorus.
-Ellen wanted to get a male rapper to do the spoken parts but was talked into keeping her own performance. She still questions this decision.
-This track utilizes Ellen's classical vocal training.