Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Easy Money

      From the double album "Abattoir Blues"/"Lyre of Orpheus" (2004)

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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It's difficult. It's very tough.
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I said to the man who'd been sleeping rough
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To sit within a fragrant breeze
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   All among the nodding trees
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   That hang heavy with the stuff

[Verse 2]
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He threw his arms around my neck
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He brushed the tear from my cheek
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And held my soft white hand
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   He was an understanding man
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   He did not even barely hardly speak

[Chorus]
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Easy money
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Rain it down on the wife and the kids
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Rain it down on the house where we live
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Rain until you got nothing left to give
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And rain that ever-loving stuff down on me

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
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All the things for which my heart yearns
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Gives joy in diminishing returns
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He kissed me on the mouth
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  His hands they headed south
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   And my cheek it burned

[Verse 4]
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Money, man, it is a bitch
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The poor, they spoil it for the rich
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With my face pressed in the clover
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I wondered when this would be over
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And at home we are all so guilty-sad

[Chorus]
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Easy money
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Pour it down the open drain
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Pour it all through my veins
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Pour it down, yeah, let it rain
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And pour that ever-loving stuff down on me

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 5]
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Now, I'm sitting pretty down on the bank
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Life shuffles past at a low interest rate
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In the money-coloured meadows
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  And all the interesting shadows
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They leap up and dissipate

[Chorus]
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Easy money
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Easy money
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Easy money
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Rain it down on the wife and the kids
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Rain it down on the house where we live
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Rain until you got nothing left to give
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And rain that ever-loving stuff down on me

[Outro]
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Easy money
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Easy money