I wish I had more money than I have
and I know that's not punk,
but I'd like to pay my rent.
And I can't survive without money.
No I can't survive without money.

And I want to eat red, red meat.
I want to feel it digesting inside of my tummy
I support animal testing.
I'd kill a kitten to save a human being.

The human race we are big, big dicks.
We fuck holes in the world and fuck everybody else
And we fuck because we are lonely.
We fuck because we are lonely.

And we ought to give it one more shot
we have to save the world
and bathe ourselves with love
because love is all we need
except that love isn't really all we need.

We need compassion
and we need empathy
and we need love, a little bit
and we need some money
or a way to fulfill our five basic needs that we all have
that we all have.


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    This song just strikes a chord with me. Every line says something very powerful.

    This song is talking to all those people who think that they have found some better, more enlightened way to live. He talks about the people who think that money is pointless and scoff at those who seek it at all. The thing is that at least for the author, he needs money in order to fulfill his basic needs that everyone has no matter what. He doesn't say that everyone else needs money, but that for him that is the only way he knows to fulfill those needs.

    petemanpeteron March 06, 2009   Link

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