Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Money Becomes King (Guitar)

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If you reach back in your memory

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A little bell might ring

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'Bout a time that once existed

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When money wasn't king

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If you stretch your imagination

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I'll tell you all a tale

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About a time when everything

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Wasn't up for sale

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There was this cat named Johnny

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Who loved to play and sing

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When money wasn't king

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We'd all get so excited

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When John would give a show

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We'd raise the cash between us

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And down the road we'd go

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To hear him play that music

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That spoke right to my soul

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Every verse a diamond

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Every chorus gold

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The sound was my salvation

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It was only everything

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Before money became king

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Well I ain't sure how it happened

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And I don't know exactly when

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But everything got bigger

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And the rules began to bend

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And the TV taught the people

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How to get their hair to shine

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And how sweet life can be

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If you keep a tight behind

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And they raised the cost of living

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And how could we have known

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They'd double the price of tickets

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To go see Johnny's show

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So we hocked all our possessions

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And we sold a little dope

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And went off to rock'n'roll

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We arrived there early

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In time to see rehearsal

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And John came out and lip-synched

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His new lite beer commercial

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And as the crowd arrived

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As far as I could see

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The faces were all different

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There was no one there like me

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They sat in golden circles

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And waiters sevred them wine

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And talked through all the music

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And to John paid little mind

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And way up in the nosebleeds

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We watched him on the screen

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They'd hung between the billboards

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So cheaper seats could see

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Johnny rocked that golden circle

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And all those VIPs

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And that music that had freed us

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Became a tired routine

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And I saw his face in close-up

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Trying to give it all he had

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And sometimes his eyes betrayed him

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You could see that he was sad

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And I tried to rock on with him

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But I slowly became bored

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Could that man on stage with everything

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Somehow need some more?

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There was no use in pretending

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No magic left to hear

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All the music gave me

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Was a craving for lite beer

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As I walked out of the arena

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My ears began to ring

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And money became king