American Money Lyrics - Singles - Ganggajang

"Is this what my life amounts to?" 

Says the man with the carnation in his lapel, 

"I didn't know it worked this way 

I thought every dog had his day" 

And he'd believed in the dream 

He'd waited on every corner 

But now forsaken he explains 

It wasn't the temptation of a woman 

It was American money 

I tell you it made him what he is today 

It was American money 

He imagined stuffing pictures of Washington 

In the pocket of his raincoat 

"So where has my family gone to?" 

Says the man 

From the fortieth floor of his hotel 

Well everybody has to pay 

But maybe it's in different ways 

'Cause he'd believed in the dream 

Why he'd met it on every corner 

But he never could explain 

What could made a man lose his sense of decency 

It was American money 

I tell you it made him what he is today 

It was American money 

So don't underestimate the power of 

The dollar in your pocket 

American money 

And there's pictures of Washington 

Falling from his pockets 

Now they got guns in outer space 

And nobody's going to win that race 

'Cause when there's nowhere left to hide 

You won't be taking sides 

Though you believed in the dream 

And it was waiting on every corner 

But now it's coming down around you 

Like bankers jumping from the windows of Wall Street 

American money 

I tell you it made us what we are today 

It was American money 

So don't underestimate the power 

Of the dollar in your pocket 

American money 

I tell you, made us what we are today 

It was American money 

We'd imagined stuffing pictures of Washington 

In the pockets of our raincoats