Money Changes Everything Lyrics
I said, "I'm sorry, baby, I'm leaving you tonight
I found someone new, he's waiting in the car outside"
"Aw, honey, how could you do it?
We swore each other everlasting love"
I said, "Well, yeah, I know, but when we did
There was one thing we weren't thinking of, and that's money"
[Chorus]
Money changes everything
I said money, money changes everything
We think we know what we're doing, that don't mean a thing
It's all in the past now, money changes everything
[Verse 2]
They shake your hand and they smile, and they buy you a drink
They say, "We'll be your friends, we'll stick with you 'til the end"
Ah, but everybody's only
Looking out for themselves
And you say, "Well, who can you trust?"
I'll tell you, it's just nobody else, it's money
[Chorus]
Money changes everything
I said money, money changes everything
You think you know what you're doing, we don't pull the strings
It's all in the past now, money changes everything
[Chorus]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, money, money changes everything
I said money, money changes everything
We think we know what we're doing, we don't know a thing
It's all in the past now, money changes everything
[Outro]
Hey, yeah, yeah
Money is everything, yes
Money changes everything, yeah
Money is everything
Money is everything, yes
Money changes everything, yeah, yeah
Money, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
About
‘Money Changes Everything’ by Tom Gray appears on the 1984 Cyndi Lauper album, She’s So Unusual. It’s a first person story song about a girl who leaves her guy for someone with money. While there are many songs about how money can’t buy love, this one is the opposite side of the coin, saying that for some, money always trumps love. Lauper didn’t change the gender of the song from the original, she simply changed the tense to recount a story.
Some have interpreted the meaning of the song to be about the music business and how big money has changed the business. Gray has never mentioned this, saying only that he got the idea for the song during a conversation with his land lady who was gossiping about another tenant and the reason for their imminent break-up.
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