Money Lyrics
Get a good job with good pay and you're okay
Money, it's a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream
Think I'll buy me a football team
I'm all right Jack keep your hands off of my stack
Money, it's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit
I'm in the high-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a Lear jet
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a raise it's no surprise
That they're giving none away
Away, away, way
Away, away, away
"HuHuh! I was in the right!"
"Yes, absolutely in the right!"
"I certainly was in the right!"
"You was definitely in the right. That geezer was cruising for a bruising!"
"Yeah!"
"Why does anyone do anything?"
"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time!"
"I was just telling him, he couldn't get into number 2. He was asking
why he wasn't coming up on freely, after I was yelling and
screaming and telling him why he wasn't coming up on freely.
It came as a heavy blow, but we sorted the matter out"
The best line is "share it fairly, but don't take a slice of my pie".
You hear people all the time complaining about inequality but when it comes down to it, you can bet they really think along this line.
it became as a classic due to the economy Britain was in at 1975, but remains as if Floyd are singing about our own today situation ;)
its common to have the rich get richer and the poor get poorer..
its common to have the rich get richer and the poor get poorer..
1973.
1973.
"money, its a hit" how more true can it get? people are like cattle. if your neighbor buys a new car, well hell yeah u need it to! ....thats how people think. Its disgusting. theres a story by dr. seuss. its called the sneetches. READ IT.
Hey, the sax is good. Goes well in the song. Not like that sax solo in My Lovely Horse.
anyway I like the line
'money, it's a hit'
comparing it to a drug. Seems appropriate, as we can't seem to get enough of it, and our wholes live often seem devoted to obtaining more.
The person who said this song is a "Randian style objectivist-esque, libertarian defence" is a moron. Please stop listening to Floyd and go listen to Ki$$, I think that band will be more to your liking.
Money is about greed. It is about the addiction we have of money and the insanity greed can bring. That is not to say they are innocent of this, but at the same time they are not positively about money and greed.
PS: Rand was a pseudo philosopher. It is generally known among most philosophers and professors of philosophy that she had a poor understanding of the philosophy she would reference. The is/ought problem for example. Furthermore, the last thing I can see Roger Waters calling himself is an objectivist. He's described himself as socialist, his music clearly illustrates this and he constantly speaks out against imperialist interventions, which Rand supported, such as corporation theft of middle-eastern oil.
in fact I think this song is talking about the evil imperial music industry people that were attacked in Wish You Were Here..
in fact I think this song is talking about the evil imperial music industry people that were attacked in Wish You Were Here..
Roger Waters may be described as socialist, but his actions are capitalist.
Roger Waters may be described as socialist, but his actions are capitalist.
Roger Waters Net Worth: $310 Million
Roger Waters Net Worth: $310 Million
A socialist would donate all but $5 million to charity (or the State).
A socialist would donate all but $5 million to charity (or the State).
the Sax is intregal. IT cements the entire song as a really sleazy backhanded treatise on the corrupting influence of filthy lucre. I hate when the classic rock station only plays the edited version
Though with fitting to the whole desires for money, could it be possible that PF was talking about americans in general? I mean, america IS the most money hungry country in the world, or i should say the society is. Could PF actually be diggin on american culture? This is just a theory. ANy thoughts?
Nothing in the lyrics lead me to believe this in directed at Americans specifically. It's a theory though.
Nothing in the lyrics lead me to believe this in directed at Americans specifically. It's a theory though.
The song sounds happy enough yeah, but listen to it in context with the rest of the album. It's about how having an excess of money will change you, make you greedy and selfish.
Just one more thing that can drive a man insane, Money.
i think this song is about greed, and people's hypocrisy when they criticize somebody about being greedy. The first two verses are about a guy who's hording all the money and possesions he can, the last line is about the narrator of the song noticing how people can criticize others for keeping so many possesions while the poor suffer, and yet, the people that criticize won't give any of their money to help either.
Money isnt really the root of all evil. Its the gas that fuels the machine. Money Fuels the machine which seems to me to be the "evil" throughout the Pink Floyd's music.