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[00:13.48]If you reach back in your memory
[00:17.08]A little bell might ring
[00:20.07]About a time that once existed
[00:23.40]When money wasn't king
[00:26.55]If you stretch your imagination
[00:30.01]I'll tell you all a tale
[00:33.33]About a time when everything
[00:36.87]Wasn't up for sale
[00:41.34]There was this cat named Johnny
[00:44.70]Who loved to play and sing
[00:48.02]When money wasn't king
[00:56.26]We'd all get so excited
[00:59.38]When John would give a show
[01:02.58]We'd raise the cash between us
[01:05.98]And down the road we'd go
[01:09.23]To hear him play that music
[01:12.47]It spoke right to my soul
[01:15.95]Every verse a diamond
[01:18.90]And every chorus gold
[01:23.92]The sound was my salvation
[01:27.05]It was only everything
[01:30.13]Before money became king
[01:38.36]Well, I ain't sure how it happened
[01:41.58]And I don't know exactly when
[01:45.05]But everything got bigger
[01:48.13]And the rules began to bend
[01:51.41]And the TV taught the people
[01:54.71]How to get their hair to shine
[01:58.21]And how sweet life can be
[02:01.18]If you keep a tight behind
[02:04.39]And they raised the cost of living
[02:07.96]And how could we have known
[02:11.19]They'd doubled the price of tickets
[02:14.17]To go see Johnny's show?
[02:23.86]So we hocked all our possessions
[02:27.16]And we sold a little dope
[02:30.32]And went off to rock 'n' roll
[02:45.32]We arrived there early
[02:48.31]In time to see rehearsal
[02:51.74]And John came out and lip-synched
[02:54.79]His new lite beer commercial
[02:58.19]And as the crowd arrived
[03:01.47]As far as I could see
[03:04.66]The faces were all different
[03:07.60]There was no one there like me
[03:12.74]They sat in golden circles
[03:15.98]And waiters served them wine
[03:19.32]And they talked through all the music
[03:22.23]And to John paid little mind
[03:25.67]And way up in the nosebleeds
[03:28.97]We watched him on the screen
[03:32.17]They'd hung between the billboards
[03:35.44]So cheaper seats could see
[03:40.10]Johnny rocked that golden circle
[03:43.58]And all those VIPs
[03:46.62]And that music that had freed us
[03:50.09]Became a tired routine
[03:53.14]And I saw his face in close-up
[03:56.34]Trying to give it all he had
[03:59.60]And sometimes his eyes betrayed him
[04:02.80]You could see that he was sad
[04:06.06]And I tried to rock on with him
[04:09.25]But I slowly became bored
[04:12.48]Could that man on stage with everything
[04:16.05]Somehow need some more?
[04:25.25]There was no use in pretending
[04:28.66]No magic left to hear
[04:32.13]All the music gave me
[04:34.95]Was a craving for lite beer
[04:38.25]As I walked out of the arena
[04:41.49]My ears began to ring
[04:44.64]And money became king