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It all started when I kissed you You smiled because you knew There was something set in motion Only currency could move You led me to an empty bench inside a public park You made me wait, You watched my watch, And watched the sky go dark. I looked around and got nervous I heard a crying crow And a tiny cirlce rolled our way and settled in the snow You pointed at that penny And it pointed back at you And our great emancipator told yours truly what to do He said, "We've all got money, We've all got time. So, let's sell the house, sell the car, Sell the deed to a copper mine. Maybe the rock of ages is just another stone And to his empty childen: leave this empty world alone." I grabbed your hand and hurried Knew we didn't have much time We left the trail and ran like hell to make it out alive. We scurried under bushes like a field mouse from a snake Letras de cancionesI felt a tug upon my shirt sleeve from a beggar at the gate. He said, "Can you spare a nickle son, I'm down to my last two." I said that I was done with change So a dollar would have to do But when first I touched my wallet Then I realized my mistake Our great emancipator's big green head began to shake He said, "I'll see your penny and raise you ninety-nine, Seems all your gods and prophets never reached the welfare line Maybe the rock of ages is just another stone And to his empty childen: leave this empty world alone." I tossed away that greenback and that beggar-man just laughed I hailed a speeding taxicab before it hurried past He asked me, "Where to mister?" Up to Sixth and Fifty-Third. I looked at you, you looked at me And we didn't speak a word. There was silence in the city As we passed under the moon And that taxi-man starting whistling some old antebellum tune. He turned around to face us 'neath the lights of Broadway And that tall man in the tophat said, "There's something I've got to say: I don't want your money, just a minute of your time You can sell your house, sell your kids, Sell your soul to the picket line. Maybe the rock of ages is just another stone But to his empty childen: leave this world alone." From Letras Mania