**"Once in a Paycheck"**

(Verse 1)

Waking up to another price

Hold my wallet, feeling the vice

Where did all my savings go?

Groceries high, wages low

(Chorus)

And you may ask yourself

Where's that dollar's worth gone?

And you may say to yourself

How did prices get so drawn?

(Verse 2)

Bills piling up to the ceiling

Remember days of financial healing?

Numbers rising, bank account's tight

Trying to budget every night

(Chorus)

And you may ask yourself

Where's that dollar's worth gone?

And you may say to yourself

How did prices get so drawn?

(Bridge)

Inflation, creeping, always stealing

Dollar shrinking, it's so revealing

In the market, in the store

Money's worth less, need more and more

(Recurring Line)

Inflation, rising all around

Every paycheck, dollar's down

(Verse 3)

Look at these numbers, watch them soar

Everything's more than it was before

Can we ever find a way?

To make the value stay, not decay

(Chorus)

And you may ask yourself

Where's that dollar's worth gone?

And you may say to yourself

How did prices get so drawn?

(Outro)

Inflation, rising all around

Every paycheck, dollar's down

Same as it ever was, yet always new

Inflation's dance, continues through.

Same as it ever was