Beauty Stab

Not what you are,

But what you've earned

Where jack-queen-king

Money's concerned

A friend in need is a friend in debt

That kinda friend king money can forget.

May those that are full get struck dumb

When they tell the hungry of the good times

To come,

More money than sense in their defence

And cheaper jokes at our expense



So if your king is money

Then i feel sorry for you

And if you think that it's funny

Then maybe you do...

Maybe you do king money

King money, king money



The midas touch doesn't mean

That much until you're crippled with greed,

Using gold as a crutch or half a man

For half a crown for half a kingdom

For half a town

No geldt-in-my-pelt-jack,

No cash in my shack so tell me the things

That you think i lack

Just what kinda price are you willing to pay

For a holiday from the royal tourniquet



So if your king is money

Then i feel sorry for you

And if you think that it's funny

Then maybe you do...

Maybe you do king money

King money, king money



Standing by the xerox machine

I want to duplicate some money

Build a fortune up in black and white

But i'll need a master copy.



You're gonna give your love to me

Shake an apple off the apple tree

When she moves it's poetry

Come to me now, one, two, three



King ka

King ka

King king money



Plan the perfect double murder

Maybe win the pools when i get some money

Honey, i'll be knee high in consumer

Durables



Adorables...

With a little faith we could raise the land

With a little hope we could move as planned

With a little faith we could raise the land

With a little hope we could move as planned

Farm the ghetto up,

Feed the famine down with our nose to the grindstone

Ear to the ground

Find a steady job,

Build a happy home

Farm a steady crop,

Then depose the throne

We could irrigate thirst quenching lake,

Make a fertile place

Thus the desert spake...



Spill the feathers up,

Slash the silk might as well stop boo

Hooing over all that spilt milk,

Empty trap, screaming eye,

Seething lip, stop wondering

Why butter mountains here.

Better motivate it's getting late,

Assassinate the grain, co co co co commotion

Before a global war,

We'd better bridge the ocean



Just like an open wound that

Forever bleeds just like an open plain

In scattered seeds or the foolish man

Believing all he reads,

He begs, he pleads.

By default by design

Time after time

Maybe you earned it,

Maybe you spurned it

But you got it...

You got it

Call it attraction or charm

Sound the alarm

Maybe you earned it,

Maybe you spurned it

But you got it...

Yes, you got it



Breaking hearts your speciality?

Why did you ever have to come so close to me

Was it love or morbid curiosity?

Either way i'd say that love's a possibility

Come a little closer,

Let me see you in close detail

The object of my affections

Walked off in the other direction



By default by design

Time after time

Maybe you earned it,

Maybe you spurned it

But you got it...

You got it

Call it attraction or charm

Sound the alarm

Maybe you earned it,

Maybe you spurned it

But you got it...

Yes, you got it



Modern day romeo's,

Modern day juliet's

Selling their love for a packet of cigarettes

Still i remember the day that we first met...

And yet so far, so good

So what else can we ever expect?

Come a little closer, let me see you in close detail

The object of my affections walked off in the other direction



By default by design

Time after time

Maybe you earned it,

Maybe you spurned it

But you got it...

You got it

Call it attraction or charm

Sound the alarm

Maybe you earned it,

Maybe you spurned it

But you got it...

Yes, you got it

Cock a snoot,

Loop the loop,

Hock the hula-hoop,

But now it yo-yo'd back again

Shiver me timbers,

Just jumped ship with a little faith

We could win the championship

Parachute substitute, problem is it's soooo cute

Workless, cashless, hungry and in debt

Outta house, outta home, outta pocket



They persuade you,

That they made you then betrayed you

And they blame you with the power of persuasion

The power of persuasion

The power of persuasion

The power of persuasion



You bought the troll,

You bought the gonk,

You took it home, and put it on a pedestal

We needed a saviour,

But from its behaviour

Why did it have to be so extra-terrestrial?

Tax deductible. cash corruptible,

Never the less another poolswinner

Penniless dog tooth check,

Cash and carry find a girl,

Settle down and marry



They persuade you,

That they made you

The proclaim,

And they'll maim you with the power of persuasion

The power of persuasion

The power of persuasion

The power of persuasion



I sold the eskimo snow

Build the skyline outta playdo

Persuading you that monochrome is dayglo



With the power of persuasion

Hold a candle to a naked flame

Ask the atheist his christian name

Try parachuting from a burning plane

Finding someone else you could blame



If i ever thought you'd be lonely

If i ever thought you'd be there

If i ever fought the alimony

Painted pony

You'd be there



Eskimo heart

Bedouin throat

A butcher trussed up in a camel hair coat

A crowning in the castle

A drowning in the moat

Ocean dried,

Desert afloat



If i ever thought you'd be lonely

If i ever thought you'd be there

If i ever fought the alimony

My one and only

You'd be there



One for the lady,

One for the gent

Signatures in wet cement,

And if you ever ask,

What i meant then i'd never know,

Then i'd never know...