When they say it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
— Anon.
By the turn of the century
Talking about the money
Replaced talking about the sex,
Talking about one’s so-called
Religious life, and all that
Earlier yak about the psyche.
Talking about the money
Got down to it and captured
The hunger, the hope,
The love and the fear:
Let me hear your money talk,
Many sang.
Money was a good time
(What people want most is
Good times and insurance?)
And money picked up
The garbage the following
morning. (Someone’s
Got to do it and someone gets
Money to do it.) There was
Really nothing like talking
About the money if you wanted
To really get to know someone,
To get to know what animated,
What moved the American.
Do me. Do it to me, honey.
Do my money. Let’s get cynical:
Let me hear your money talk.