Money Gnomes - Arc Iris

Love falls gently from the sky

In bundles oh so sweet

Money lurks inside the soil

Pressed beneath our feet

Why dig up that wily stuff

When all it’s bred to do

Is sully all the pretty boys and girls

Who love me do

Foiled again would be my plan

To live in peace with you

If the coin were to emerge

And slyly oversee

What showers come of bundled goods

From cupid’s tender trees

He’d surely twist those precious goods

Into his shivering trance

And round and round with wicked tricks

The lovers he would dance

«Dance me round», she cried to him

«I'll waltz you till you love me.»

I watch her fie the boiling sky

From deep beneath the wilted leaves

Her body screaming for his ploy

«Why must riches make us thieves?

«Until they plunge into the ground

Digging for their gold

Cold and rotten roots engulf

The drugs they seek I’m told

Once the coin is in clear sight

Their love is sick with illusions

Of safety driven by the shadowed trance

Holding their sweet confusions

Love has no place in a dreary world

Obsessed with shiny things

Just unfantastic happenings

Not approved by cupid’s rings

Follow me to a place so free

Of all these impish deeds

From glen to glen to city bend

From folly we will flee

«Dance me round», she cried to him

«I'll waltz you till you love me

I watch her fie the boiling sky

From deep beneath the wilted leaves

Her body screaming for his ploy

«Why must riches make us thieves?

«Love me please, love me true, love me beautifully

«Who,» she asks most critically «is speaking down to me?»

Love me please, love me true, love me beautifully