| It’s no good praying to the powers that be
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| 'Cause they won’t shake the roots of the money tree
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| No good praying to the pristine alters
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| Waiting for the blessing with Holy water
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| They like the same old wealth in the same old hands
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| Means the same old people stay in command
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| Watch your money-go-round; |
| watch your money-go-round
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| They got it wrapped up tight, they got it safe and sound
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| Watch your money-go-round; |
| watch your money-go-round
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| As you fall from grace and hit the ground
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| Too much money in too few places
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| Only puts a smile on particular faces
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| Said too much power in not enough hands
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| Makes me think «get rich quick; |
| take all I can»
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| They’re too busy spending on the means of destruction
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| To ever spend a penny on some real construction
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| Watch the money-go-round; |
| watch the money-go-round
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| They amuse themselves as they fool around
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| Watch your money-go-round; |
| watch your money-go-round
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| Do like they say, make them vulnerable
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| No good looking to the Empire corners
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| «Civilization» built on slaughter
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| Carrying hopes and carrying maps
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| The spinless ones fall in their laps
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| The brave and the bold are the ones to be fooled
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| With a diet of lies by the Kipling school
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| Watch your money-go-round; |
| watch your money-go-round
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| But I just can’t help being cynical
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| Watch your money-go-round; |
| watch your money-go-round
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| Do like I say, make me wonderful
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| Their morals are clean and their clear
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| They bend your arm and they bend your ear
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| Said they bend your mind as you talk in circles
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| Bend over forwards, this won’t hurt you
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| Till there’s blood in your lap; |
| blood on your hands
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| Watch the money-go-round; |
| watch the money-go-round
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| Come spend a penny, go out with a pound
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| Watch the money-go-round; |
| watch the money-go-round
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| As you fall from grace and hit the ground
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| (On the money-go-round, you wanna get on but it won’t slow down)
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| The need your votes and you know where to send 'em
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| Be we don’t get the choice of a public referendum
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| On all the real issues that affect our lives
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| Like the USA base to which we play midwife
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| Take a cruise and forget this scene
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| Said come back later when the slates wiped clean
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| Watch your money-go-round; |
| watch your money-go-round
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| Born of woman, killed by man
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| Watch the money-go-round; |
| watch your money-go-round
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| Do like they pray, make it wonderful
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| The good and righteous sing their hymns
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| The crimpoline dresses who have no sins
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| Christians by day, killers in war
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| The hypocrites who know what they’re fighting for
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| Killing for peace, freedom and truth
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| But they’re too old to go so they send the youth
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| Watch the money-go-round, watch the money-go-round
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| I don’t think he was an astronaut
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| Watch the money-go-round, watch the money-go-round
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| I must insist — he was a Socialist!
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| Watch your money-go-round; |
| watch your money-go-round
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| They got it wrapped up tight, they got it safe and sound
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| Watch your money-go-round; |
| watch your money-go-round
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| As you fall from grace and hit the ground |