Money Is a Memory - Field Music

Money, money, money, money

Money, money, money, money

Money lives longer than a memory

Back to the records room

On the right hand side

In a box marked, «Three Signatories Required»

Things we owe each other from way back when

Never cut and dried

A procedural formality

Hats raised to fiscal bureaucracy

Bonds raised to rebuild democracy

The theory goes

But there are people inside

Real people inside

How do you think they’ll feel when

They find your paper is

Worth more than them?

The promises you made to your brother

All the things you owe your father and your mother

They’ll be gone when you’re gone

But watch that paper trail

(Money, money, money, money

Money, money, money, money

Money lives longer than a memory)

But we’ll pass the stories on

(Money, money, money, money

Money, money, money, money

Money lives longer than a memory)

We won’t forget

‘Cause we are people inside

Real people inside

Do you think it feels good

To know your paper is

Worth more than us?