Wealth's Echo in Midnight

Lyrics

WHERE YOU GONNA TAKE IT? Male and Female Duet Version [Intro – Female, soft and distant] Another child is praying For a meal that never came… [Male, spoken] While somebody, somewhere, Just made another billion today. ⸻ [Verse 1 – Male] Another billion made today, Another child cried anyway. Another tower touched the sky, Another mother asked God, “Why?” Gold watches on designer wrists, While empty plates still exist. You count your profits every night, But can’t buy one more breath of life. ⸻ [Pre-Chorus – Female] Tell me, what’s the number? When does “enough” begin? [Male] If your pockets touch the heavens— [Female] But your heart stays paper-thin. [Both – building] How much do you need Before you finally give? What is all that money worth If it never helps someone live? ⸻ [Chorus – Both] [Male lead, Female harmony] Where you gonna take it When the lights fade out? When the hands of time stop turning, What will your riches count? [Female lead, Male harmony] Where you gonna take it? When the final curtain falls? You can’t carry gold to Heaven, You can’t own it all. [Both] Where you gonna take it? What will you leave behind? All the things you spent your life chasing Disappear with time. Where you gonna take it? When your last breath is through? The only thing that follows Is the love you gave and the good you do. ⸻ [Verse 2 – Female] A little boy in Africa Dreams about a loaf of bread. While another yacht gets bigger, Another hungry child goes unfed. A little girl still walks for water, Miles beneath the burning sky. While another mansion’s built With rooms nobody sleeps inside. ⸻ [Verse 2B – Male] Do not tell me help is costly. Do not tell me nothing can change. There is money for the rockets, There is money for the planes. There is money for the diamonds, There is money for the fame. But when starving children need it, Everybody looks away. ⸻ [Pre-Chorus – Male] God ain’t counting dollars, He ain’t impressed by what you made. [Female] He counts the hands you lifted, And the lives your kindness saved. [Both] Not the cars inside your driveway, Not the titles by your name. When Heaven reads your story, Money never speaks the same. ⸻ [Chorus – Both] [Female lead] Where you gonna take it When your heartbeat fades? Will the numbers on your paper Be the memories you made? [Male lead] Where you gonna take it? When you leave it all behind? The richest soul is measured By the lives it helped survive. [Both – stronger] Where you gonna take it? When there’s nothing left to hold? Will they remember your compassion, Or the treasures you controlled? Where you gonna take it? When the final day arrives? The only wealth that matters Is the love you leave alive. ⸻ [Bridge – Call and Response] [Female] What if one more school was built? [Male] What if one more child could eat? [Female] What if hope became your legacy? [Male] Instead of gold beneath your feet? [Female] What if clean water reached a village? [Male] What if medicine reached the weak? [Female] What if love became your language? [Male] Instead of numbers when you speak? [Both] Build a future, not a fortune. Feed a family, change a name. Because when Heaven asks your story, Money never speaks the same. ⸻ [Breakdown – Male, heavy spoken delivery] No private jet can carry you. No black card buys another breath. No mansion keeps the door shut When you finally meet with death. You can own a thousand buildings. You can own a thousand cars. But you cannot buy one minute When your final hour starts. ⸻ [Breakdown Response – Female, emotional] But you can feed a hungry child. You can help a mother stand. You can turn somebody’s suffering Into hope with open hands. You can leave behind a blessing. You can give instead of take. You can build a living legacy That even death cannot erase. ⸻ [Final Chorus – Female starts, Male joins] [Female] Where you gonna take it? When the journey ends? Will they count the gold you gathered, Or the hearts you helped to mend? [Male] Where you gonna take it When you’re standing at the gate? Every kingdom built on money Gets left outside the gate. [Both – full harmony] Where you gonna take it When your final breath is gone? The world will keep on turning, Your fortune will move on. Where you gonna take it? Not a penny goes your way. The only wealth that follows Is the love you gave away. ⸻ [Final Refrain – Choir and Both Voices] [Female lead] So if God gives you abundance— [Male response] Open up your hands. [Female] Feed the hungry, heal the broken— [Male] Help somebody stand. [Both] You cannot take the mansion. You cannot take the fame. But every life you helped survive Will remember that you came. [Both – repeated, louder] Where you gonna take it? Where you gonna take it? When the final day comes, What will your heart say? Where you gonna take it? Where you gonna go? You can’t take the riches with you, Only what you chose to sow. [Female,