Primal Scream - Innocent Money (Official Video)

The official video for 'Innocent Money' by Primal Scream.

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Credits:
Directed by Douglas Hart:   / douglashartfilm  
Produced by Juliette Larthe:   / juliette_larthe  
Styled by Lydia Simpson:   / lydia_simpson_  

Lyrics:
At night he sleeps on garbage heap streets 
On the mattress he keeps strapped to his back 
Of sleeping bag 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 
 
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 
Is the King of the World 
INNOCENT MONEY 
It’s the Devil himself 
 
From Buckingham Palace to sink estate slums 
Imperial nostalgia, the eagle has flown 
Britannia’s resigned to managed decline 
The fox guards the chickens, the chickens don’t mind 
The system is rigged like a Vegas casino 
We’re most of us born with a busted flush 
Marx’s pipe dream of a classless society 
IS further away than the mountains of Mars 
 
INNOCENT MONEY 
A lifetime of work 
INNOCENT MONEY 
With nothing to show for it 
INNOCENT MONEY 
‘Cept a face full of worry 
INNOCENT MONEY 
And a fist-full of air 
 
The bourgeois bastards just keep stealing 
And selling the dreaming of the lie-lie-lies 
That undermine our lives 
The slugs at the bottom feed the wolves at the top 
Growth spreads upwards ever only 
There’s no ‘trickle down – trickle down’ 
Our souls are worth more than the warmth of the sun 
They’ve tricked us to believe that our work is never done 
Cognitive dissonance 
Proud of your ignorance 
Subjects nor citizens 
Never read a book 
Too scared to take a look 
Too scared to take a look 
 
Market theology 
Makes a lie of ‘Democracy’ 
We’d swim in a sewer for it 
Drowning in debt for it 
Market realities 
Closed down the factories 
A rope made of gold 
To hang ourselves on 

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