Band/Artist: Brian Cottrill 

Single Title: Money Murder

Label: self released 

Dates: May 2, 2025 

Genre: Alternative Guitar Rock

Availability: The “Money Murder” single and music video will be released on May 2, 2025 to all major streaming platforms and YouTube.


Bio: Brian Cottrill is a veteran of the West Virginia music scene. He has released eight critically acclaimed albums and performed live with The Grey Agents, Dream Trippers, Drain Babies, and as a solo artist. He is a singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer. 


Band: Hannah Cottrill- drums, harmony vocals

Brian Cottrill- vocals, guitar, and bass 

 

Written and recorded, mixed, and produced by Brian Cottrill. 

 

Influences for the single: Bob Mould, Green Day, U2


The story behind the song: “I was driving in Los Angeles and a $1 million McLaren car was driving beside me while we were surrounded by homeless people under a highway overpass. And I just thought, ‘Ain’t that America?’ …where extreme wealth sits beside extreme poverty. I also saw the Uvalde school shooting video where the police were running away from the gun shots and waited an hour to enter the classroom. Those ideas are the foundations of the song. It’s about those things this country has become that seem beyond reason” said songwriter Brian Cottrill. Brian’s daughter Hannah plays drums and sings harmony vocals on the song. 


Lyrics: 

Saw a McLaren in the underpass

And homeless carrying a mattress

Not enough dough for education

Oh but have you been to Vegas

The politicians are millionaires

But the job don’t pay like that mon frère

33 kids bleeding on the floor

Cops too scared to open the door

  

Money Murder America Means

Money Murder America Means


Can’t feed the starving, say a prayer

But billionaires are everywhere 

They’re partying out on that yacht

With caviar they never bought

Covid left a million dead

But stocks need pushed up instead

Grab a gun and grab a knife

Won’t wear a mask to save a life


Money Murder America Means

Money Murder America Means


They keep starting wars 

They won’t stop trying

The rich get richer from it

And the poor just keep on dying


Shots fired in the school today

The cop just ran the other way

If she’s raped and pregnant without fail 

Must give birth or go to jail

On minimum wage it’s hard to dine 

It’s been the same since twenty nine

40,000 shot in the ground

Thoughts and prayers have let us down


Money Murder America Means

Money Murder America Means


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