Innocent Money

Lyrics

[Verse 1] At night he sleeps on garbage heap streets On the mattress he keeps strapped to his back Of sleeping bag and rags In a five-star shop doorway or underpass home Canal wind cutting deep through his bones And a wrap of smack and the mattress on his back Are all that he owns And nobody visits and nobody cares (Oh) [Chorus] Innocent money (Weighing our worth in it) Innocent money (Surrender our lives to it) Innocent money (There's never enough of it) Innocent money (Swimming in sewers for it) (Hey) [Post-Chorus] Innocent money (Oh, come on, come on) Innocent money (Innocеnt money) Innocent money (Innocеnt money, woo) Innocent money (Come on, come on) [Verse 2] His cold dead stare and filthy grease matted hair Makes the civilians scared as they walk on by With their pious eyes glued to the floor They've got no clue that he didn't choose His pavement blues And the world keeps turning just a little more And all he can hope for is some money to score Some money to score (Oh, nobody cares) [Chorus] Innocent money (We place all our trust in it) Innocent money (We pray to our gods for it) Innocent money (Is the king of the world) Innocent money (It's the Devil himself) (Oh) [Verse 3] From Buckingham Palace to sink estate slums (Innocent money, innocent money) Imperial nostalgia, the eagle has flown (Innocent money, innocent money) Britannia's resigned to managed decline (Innocent money, innocent money) The fox guards the chickens, the chickens don't mind (Innocent money) The system is rigged like a Vegas casino Where most of us born with a busted flush Marx's pipe dream of a classless society Is further away than the mountains of Mars (Oh) [Chorus] Innocent money (A lifetime of work) Innocent money (With nothing to show for it) Innocent money ('Cept a face full of worry) Innocent money (And a fistful of air) [Post-Chorus] Oh, woah Woo-ooh No time to sleep [Bridge] Always the wealthy (Eh), never the poor (Ooh) Always the wealthy (Eh), never the poor Always the wealthy, never the poor Always the wealthy, never the poor Always the wealthy (Hey, always the wealthy), never the poor (Never the poor) Always the wealthy (Never the poor), never the poor [Interlude] The bourgeois bastards just keep stealing And selling the dreaming of the lies, lies, lies That undermine our lives The slugs at the bottom feed the wolves at the top Growth spreads upwards ever only There's no trickle down, trickle down, trickle down, trickle down (Oh) Our souls are worth more than the warmth of the sun (Trickle down, trickle down) They've tricked us to believe that our work is never done (Oh, trickle down, trickle down) Cognitive dissonance, proud of your ignorance (Oh) Subjects not citizens, never read a book (Trickle down, trickle down) Too scared to take a look, too scared to take a look (Yeah, to take a look, take a look) [Verse 4] Market theology (Woo, open your eyes) Makes a lie of democracy (Open your eyes, take a look, take a look, ooh) We'd swim in a sewer for it (Take a look, take a look) Drowning in debt for it (Open your eyes, open your eyes, take a look) Market realities (Open your eyes, take a look, open your eyes) Closed down the factories (Open your eyes, take a look) A rope made of gold (Open your eyes, take a look, take a look, open your eyes) To hang ourselves on (Open your eyes, open your eyes) [Outro] Open your eyes, take a look Open your eyes, oh Open your eyes, open your eyes Take a look, open your eyes Open your eyes, take a look Open your eyes, take a look Open your eyes, open your eyes Open your eyes Ooh, open your eyes, take a look, take a look Open your eyes Open your eyes Open your eyes, take a look Open your eyes, take a look Open your eyes Innocent, innocent Innocent, innocent Innocent, innocent Innocent, innocent Innocent, innocent