Artist Statement Outline

Dustin Kensrue's lyrics create a literal connection to the Great Depression by juxtaposing a helpful outlook with a somber outlook of an event which I interpreted to be this historical period.

helpful:
great depression caused by stock market crash
stock market is based on money
money will be the entity addressed in my writing
The first and third lines of the three quatrains provides a list of things that money does to help.
It seems as if it were written in a way such that money is talking to another person.

somber:
The second and fourth lines of the three quatrains, for the most part, provide an aside of sorts that is stated in a more somber tone than the first and third lines. Although some lines do seem to be positive, the first and third lines of the three quatrians are moreso.
The final couplet provides us with a line that is quite evidently the most somber thought within the 14 lines. "And after all of this, I am amazed that I am cursed more than I am praised." This line while being somber, gives us headroom to fit it to interpretations such as mine. While the Great Depression was a horribly sad time, if you look at the line positively you can see that, if taken as a direct referrence to the Great Depression, it could mean that America was given an opportunity to build upon it's past failures and failed to recognize that aspect of the event.