Can't Buy Me Love

from Reasons To Revolt by Romy Elliott

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You say you’ll buy me a diamond ring, but what good would it do?
How can an object represent the love twixt me and you?
To wear wealth upon your finger just seems a bloody waste
And I’m not one to flaunt around a plutocrat’s bad taste

Cos I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love
No I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love
Can’t buy me love, love, love
Can’t buy me love, love, love

This “age old tradition”
Was a systematic mission
To rob you of two months pay
They made that rule
Yet they take us for fools
As we throw our salary away
They say “Give us your coins
Or you just love her with your groin
And not with the whole of your heart”
But to place such a fee
On a token for me
Is how bad marriages start.

ButI don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love
No I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love
Can’t buy me love, love, love
Can’t buy me love, love, love

Everybody wants it
Most people need it
And if you have it you can use it to make more
Buy and sell your wares
Check your stocks and shares
And lie to people - that’s what advertising’s for!
As for employees
Best reduce their fees
It’s even easier if they live in other countries
Exploit the Earth
You know what it’s worth
Because most of it is already in your pocket.

Express your love some other way, and take your ring to hell
This need is fabricated and corrupts the mind as well
We’re taught to love possessions and eternally want more
But if we’re always wanting what can we be happy for?
We’re given lives of misery and told that it’s our fault
But in this world of greed
There is no more need
Of a reason to revolt!

Cos I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love
No I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love
Can’t buy me love, love, love
Can’t buy me love, love, love
Can’t buy me love…

Money can’t buy me love

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from Reasons To Revolt, released December 13, 2019
Lead guitar - Orson Plant
Bass - Chris Gibbons
Drums - David Lovell
Chorus lyrics attributed to Lennon/McCartney

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