Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
In love with your pills
Now I can get rid of myself
If all of this kills
Why am I so hard on myself?
In this town, when the sun goes down
You party, I pay the bills
In this room, I look around at everything I've built
And it don't mean a thing
Ain't it terrible to think?
She's in it for the money
You know, love don't cost a thing
Build your heart a diamond and it don't need no ring
It gets me laying sideways and every time I sing it
She's in it for the money
You know, love don't mean a thing
Patty, shine a light down on me tonight
Battalions to charge and die but not take nothing
Patty, shine a light down on me tonight
Straight down on me
I'm in love with your pills
I tried to get rid of myself
A little red, a little blue
Climb the walls, how about you?
Well it don't mean a thing
Ain't that terrible to think?
She's in it for the money
You know, love don't cost a thing
Build your heart a diamond and it don't need no ring
It gets me laying sideways and every time I sing it
She's in it for the money
You know, love don't mean a thing
Now I can get rid of myself
If all of this kills
Why am I so hard on myself?
In this town, when the sun goes down
You party, I pay the bills
In this room, I look around at everything I've built
And it don't mean a thing
Ain't it terrible to think?
She's in it for the money
You know, love don't cost a thing
Build your heart a diamond and it don't need no ring
It gets me laying sideways and every time I sing it
She's in it for the money
You know, love don't mean a thing
Patty, shine a light down on me tonight
Battalions to charge and die but not take nothing
Patty, shine a light down on me tonight
Straight down on me
I'm in love with your pills
I tried to get rid of myself
A little red, a little blue
Climb the walls, how about you?
Well it don't mean a thing
Ain't that terrible to think?
She's in it for the money
You know, love don't cost a thing
Build your heart a diamond and it don't need no ring
It gets me laying sideways and every time I sing it
She's in it for the money
You know, love don't mean a thing
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She's in It for the Money Lyrics as written by Matthew Good
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amazing song. i saw him play this live in vancouver bc, second row. he introduced it in the most heartbreaking way possible. "it's just one of those songs... that you wish you never had to write"
For those who don't know, this song is about the Heartbreak Matt went through because of his divorce.
We should all learn from the line "Build your heart a diamond, and it don't need no ring."
I too saw the Vancouver show, it was truly amazing...
Yeah I agree. He intro'd it at our concert by saying "This song is for women who love expensive purses and the dumb f***ing guys who buy them for them.
It is about his divorce, but the only part i dont get is the "Patty" I thought his wife's name was Jen? & RagePrime i was at that concert! it was amazing, the jackassery scale.
"Pat,
There's no way to know where to go from here. It seems to me I've been thinking about it all these years you've been gone, like there was some big mystery out there coming for me. But the longer I sit here and wait for it the more I realize that it's never going to come. That it was up to me to go and dispel the myth of it myself. But having realized that, It's like my feet are stuck in cement and I can't move. You know Chris has kids now, a boy and a girl and you'd love them. Tamer than we were when we were little. I look at them and think that maybe Chris had it figured out a long time ago. That he went searching and figured out that there's just some old man behind a curtian pulling ropes and levers. Sometimes I want to ask him about it but I can't bring myself to do it. What would he think I wonder? Who would be the failure then?"
That thingy there was part of the writing in the video for "Weapon" from Avalanche. He's talking like the person he's writing to, Pat, is dead. So maybe that's who he is talking to who he's calling Patty, and telling him/her to shine a light down on him. Maybe an old friend of matt's?
He said it was the song he wishes he didn't have to write.
No man should have to...
Apparently, his grandma's name is 'Patti'... so when he sings "Patti, shine a light down on me tonight" he's asking for her to show him that he's not lost... and that there is some hope...
Its pretty clear what this song is about... So I am going to focus on the one line.
Build your heart a diamond and It don't need no ring.
The greek word for Diamond i Adamas which means Unconquerable.
I harden my heart with thoughts of you I crush it with the things you do
For the Heat I need your words are fuel To create and make My heart a Jewel
Dark and cold your nothing but coal and I thrive on it Its saving my soul
Despite all the things you say and do My heart is now Diamond Strong and true
that makes this song so terribly perfect is because his heart is behind every lyric and chord. It is depressing to know that he had to live this to make such a stunning song... and I feel like such a villain for being glad, because the song is so achingly beautiful.