Primal Scream - Innocent Money Lyrics
Primal Scream - Innocent Money Lyrics At night he sleeps on garbage heap streets On the mattress he keeps strapped to his back Of sleeping bags and rags In a five-star shop doorway or underpass home Canal wind cutting deep through his bones And a wrap of smack and the mattress on his back Are all that he owns And nobody visits and nobody cares Innocent money Weighing our worth in it Innocent money Surrender our lives to it Innocent money There's never enough of it Innocent money Swimming in sewers for it Innocent money Innocent money Innocent money Innocent money His cold dead stare and filthy grease matted hair Makes the civilians scared as they walk on by With their pious eyes glued to the floor And they've got no clue that he didn't choose His pavement blues And the world keeps turning just a little more And all he can hope for is some money to score Some money to score Innocent money We place all our trust in it Innocent money We pray to our gods for it Innocent money ...