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We can buy that mansion on the hill,
We'll fill it up until it's filled.
We'll buy a big black Cadillac
And we'll keep an extra one in the back.
We'll sit home just listening
To the sounds of the winds when they're breaking
And we can buy that diamond ring
And just about any other thing
With somebody else's money.

We can buy you that flower garden
With every rose that's ever risen.
With a blanket and a safety pin
We'll keep away all the boogie men.
And we can buy you that swing
Swing through the skies openings
And we can buy that diamond ring
And just about any other thing
With somebody else's money.

We can tattoo nickels on our skin,
We'll drain our veins and put honey in.
We'll buy new fingers two times ten,
We'll even put pennies in our chins.
We'll buy a silver set of wings,
Lay 'em on our backs for the winds
And we can buy that diamond ring
And just about any other thing
With somebody else's money.

We'll crash in on the neighbors wedding,
We'll steal the cake and go running.
You'll head straight for the jewelry
And I'll steal the money like a lottery.
We'll buy a set of legs just for walking,
And another set of tongues for when we're small talking,
Another set of lips for being obscene
And another set of heads for Halloween.

And we can buy you that swing
To swing through the skies openings.
We can buy that diamond ring,
Just about any other thing,
With somebody else's money.

We can buy babies for the babies,
We'll give them both big red ponies.
They'll live in that mansion on the hill
That we'll keep on fillin' until it's filled.

We'll watch the neighbors fatten up with greed
Watching us buying everything we don't need
I know they're listening
Through a telescope from across the street
Watching us fillin' up the bathtubs with sweets
Money, money, money.

Money on the floor put money in the beds
Put money in the drains
Money coming out of our heads,
Money, money, money.

We can kill many a dirty man
Work by the church when they bring us in.
We can buy anything
Because there's always something
That's so funny about spending
Somebody else's money.
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Cover art for Somebody Else's Money lyrics by Wallflowers, The

I loveloveLOVE this song! This song is the ultimate satire of how money-driven our society is as well as how paranoid money can make it. He sings about crashing neighbors' weddings, buying a mansion on the hill and filling it, then turns around and laments the fact that he knows "they're" listening from across the street, watching them fill up bathtubs with sweets. It's like every celebrity who has scratched and clawed to become famous, only to wheel around and complain that their newfound fame is cramping their social life.

Cover art for Somebody Else's Money lyrics by Wallflowers, The

I agree with the first comment about how this song is about our money-driven society. I don't like plugging the writer's personal life into interpretations, but this song might also have something to do with the fact that Dylan grew up very privileged and this may be his way of rejecting that. He is putting his privileged life in perspective and is exposing the ugly side of wealth.

 
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