Other People's Money

Words & Music by Steve Gillette

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She said her ex has got a penchant for the art of arbitrage He's got a mansion in the Hamptons with a seven car garage. He made a lot of friends when he was Skull & Bones at Yale, He's got an ego that's just too big to fail And when he gets together with the boys down on Wall Street They love to laugh and say we did it all with Other people's money, Other people's money. We had a ball, we took the fall, But it was other people's money, that's all. There's so much about finance that I don't understand, Must be the work of the invisible hand. You got your QE, your Ponzi, your diminishing returns While the pirate Morgan plunders, Goldman Sachs and burns. He'll hide his life story in the quarterly reports But he can't cover his naked shorts without Other people's money, Other people's money. We had a ball, we took the fall, But it was other people's money, that's all. One time I tried to ask him what he thought about a system That's robbing the poor man blind. He said the people that mind don't matter And the people that matter don't mind. Just other people's money, Other people's money We had a ball, we took the fall, But it was other people's money, that's all. ©2017 Compass Rose Music, BMI

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