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She's In It For The Money Lyrics
In love with your pills
Now I can get rid of myself
The thought 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 lying sideways and everytime I sing
She's in it for the money, you know, love don't mean a thing
She's in it for the money, you know, love don't mean a thing
Patty, shine a light down on me tonight
We're tired to charge and die but not take nothing [??]
Patty, shine a light down on me tonight
Down on me tonight
Straight down on me
Straight down on me
I'm in love with your pills
I tried to get rid of myself
A little red, a little blue
Climbed a wall
How about you?
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 lying sideways and everytime I sing
She's in it for the money, you know, love don't mean a thing
She's in it for the money, you know, love don't mean a thing
Now I can get rid of myself
The thought 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
Build your heart a diamond and it don't need no ring
It gets me lying sideways and everytime I sing
She's in it for the money, you know, love don't mean a thing
She's in it for the money, you know, love don't mean a thing
We're tired to charge and die but not take nothing [??]
Patty, shine a light down on me tonight
Down on me tonight
Straight down on me
Straight down on me
I tried to get rid of myself
A little red, a little blue
Climbed a wall
How about you?
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 lying sideways and everytime I sing
She's in it for the money, you know, love don't mean a thing
She's in it for the money, you know, love don't mean a thing
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Amazingly heartjerking song. From what I gather it's just about a guy who loves some one who doesn't truly love him back, and is just in a relationship with him to take advantage of him.
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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.