Funny Money

From the album Buy One, Get One Free by Jeremy Gratton

leave me with your sinister ministers and preachers of fame
leave me with your death defying acrobats and jugglers of praise

leave me with this empty smile
that sometimes graces this wrinkled face
leave me in your desperate eyes, your tiny waist
and your filthy mind of beauty

ain’t it funny
how the things you want aren’t always what you need
how things you need aren’t always what you want
how dreams cost so much money
isn’t it funny

leave me with a battered brain,
broken down like an engine train on its way
towards a torrent tornado and a hallowed hurricane of shame

leave me with your emptiness,
your loneliness and your feeble hands of fate
leave me with a dismal view of the beauty
i once knew inside of you

ain’t it funny
how the things you want aren’t always what you need
how things you need aren’t always what you want
how dreams cost so much money
isn’t it funny

ain’t it funny
how the things you want aren’t always what you need
how things you need aren’t always what you want
how dreams cost so much money
isn’t it funny

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