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To Be Money Lyrics
Piece above the fireplace for which they paid a mint.
Polish it so I can see myself in the silver finished print.
Plant a tree.
Watch it grow.
Cut it down to size.
See the chest is hollow.
Profit by all means and cover my eyes.
To be money.
Harlequin mobile above the cradle turns.
Lesson one: it's the first true thing that the little baby learns.
Lead, the rest will follow.
Say I love you, I don't mean it.
See the chest is hollow.
Profit by all means and cover my eyes.
To be money.
In my hand there lies a smoking Tommy gun.
And you hold your pistol high, a finger and a thumb.
Shows you can't even fantasize a thing that fires more than one by one.
The rest will say I love you.
They don't mean it.
The chest is hollow.
Profit by all means and cover my eyes.
To be money.
Polish it so I can see myself in the silver finished print.
Plant a tree.
Watch it grow.
Cut it down to size.
See the chest is hollow.
Profit by all means and cover my eyes.
To be money.
Lesson one: it's the first true thing that the little baby learns.
Lead, the rest will follow.
Say I love you, I don't mean it.
See the chest is hollow.
Profit by all means and cover my eyes.
To be money.
And you hold your pistol high, a finger and a thumb.
Shows you can't even fantasize a thing that fires more than one by one.
They don't mean it.
The chest is hollow.
Profit by all means and cover my eyes.
To be money.
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Such a hauntingly negative song... As far as I can tell, it's about being raised by rich parents, who don't care about anything but money, to not care about anything but money. It's one of those songs where just seeing the lyrics tends to diminish them, but they're a lot more effective when you can hear the music and the delivery of the lines. When he says "the chest is hollow," man... just devastating.