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If you reach back in your memory
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a little bell might ring
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bout a time that existed
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when money wasn’t king
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If you stretch your imagination
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I’ll tell you all a tale
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About a time when everything
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Wasn’t up for sale
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There was this cat named Johnny
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who loved to play and sing
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when money wasn’t king
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We’d all get so excited
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when john would give a show
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we’d raise the cash between us
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and down the road we’d go
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to hear him play that music
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it spoke right to my soul
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every verse a diamond
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every chorus gold
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the sound was my salvation
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it was only everything
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before money became king
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well I ain’t sure how it happened
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and I don’t know exactly when
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but every thing got bigger
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and the rules began to bend
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and the tv taught the people
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how to get their hair to shine
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and how sweet life could be
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if you keep a tight behind
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and they raised the cost of living
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and how could we ignore
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they doubled the price of tickets
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to go see johnny’s show
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So we hocked all our possessions
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and we sold a little dope
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and went off to rock and roll
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we arrived there early
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in time to see rehearsal
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and john came out and lip synced
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his new light beer commercial
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and as the crowd arrived
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as far as I could see
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the faces were all different
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there was no one there like me
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They sat in golden circles
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the waiters served them wine
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they talked through all the music
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and to john paid little mind
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and way up in the nose bleeds
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we watched him on the screen
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they hung between the billboards
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so cheaper seats could see
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johnny rocked that golden circle
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and all those VIP’s
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and that music that had freed us
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became a tired routine
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and I saw his face in close up
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trying to give it all he had
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and some times his eyes betrayed him
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you could see that he was sad
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and I tried to rock on with him
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but I slowly became bored
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could that man on stage with everything
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some how need some more
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no use in pretending
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no magic left to hear
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all the music gave me
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was a craving for light beer
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as I walked out of the arena
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my ears began to ring
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and Money Became King
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