New Money

Remember when I gave you new money?

I worked the till, you found it so funny

Held it up into the light

To decide it was alright

Back then you would play the dummy

Remember when you brought me to your house?

You were rich and that's how I found out

Your dad would work from home

You said you felt alone

I didn't get what that was all about

'Cause you had enough

Remember when your dad got broken in?

He was upstairs, they didn't take a thing

Doubt they would enjoy the spoils

All the sculpture and the oils

The wooden mask you got him in Beijing

Remember then he got a new alarm?

It was impossible to make disarm

So you'd smoke in the basement

I said it was displacement

You said he didn't mean any harm

But you had enough

Remember when I finally had enough?

We moved away, hardly had any stuff

You made a tent out of your sheets

I threw away receipts

We both pretended we were tough

Remember then I made my own CDs?

You helped me mail them but looked ill at ease

I kept an envelope of cash

You had written on the back

"No one's retired yet from selling these"

Why did you hold on to that old bill?

The one I gave you when I worked the till

That feeling of elation

Stays in circulation

And we could spend it still