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20060804 - When Money Talks

from The Song Diary I by Paleo

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WHEN MONEY TALKS

Around the bending silver spoon we go,
like kittens carried in my mouth,
suckling at a pen drove in
a stone no one can rouse.

Til you wake up.
You will wake up in your beds.
Someone made a helmet of your head.

Frogs hickup in a tepee tent,
let them help you find your dress.
In a war torn green as an olive tree,
I am selling my two cents.

Til you wake up.
Wake up, I've been gone for days,
while history stalked its tail around a maze.

When money talks, what does it say to you?
When money talks, what does it mean?
when money talks, what does it
say to you?
say to you?
I could take all your blues away.
I could take all your blues away.

Two-car smoke, I say trade 'em if you got 'em,
a great seal over Providence's eye.
From the root of all riverbanks,
take the morning train to night.

You will wake up.
You will wake up 'n' you'll be dead.
They made you watch them paint over the lines you made in the sand.

Caution there's a queen of Egypt,
got a big rug to fill.
Oriental bread, dead presidents
buying into time to kill.

Til you sell out.
You will sell out to the death you don't give two halves of a fuck,
brokering your mirror to buy off luck.

When money talks, what does it say to you?
When money talks, what does it mean?
When money talks? what does it
say to you?
say to you?

It's not perfect.
nothing's perfect,
but it works.

When money talks, what does it say to you?
When money talks, what does it mean?
When money talks, what does it
say to you?
say to you?
I will take all your blues away.
I could take all your blues away.
I could take all your blues away.
I could take all your blues away.

DAS - Chicago, Illinois, USA

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from The Song Diary I, released April 15, 2007

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