My Wallet Weighs Me Down Lyrics

It came unto me kind of unexpectedly

The corruption in the clergy

I got onto my knees to make my peace with God and his mother Mary

While I reached for both of my rosaries

Read first and third of the Maccabees

I never wanted to be so upset and angry

But it's not their fault the fault's with me.

So I wept and cried bitterly for my soul.

My mom and dad do the best they can

So I grow into half a man

They said to pray until you feel something

I don't feel much of anything, anymore

I'm almost out of money and I'm almost out of sanity

How did I get so greedy and clench my fist so tightly

Around the things that I got just for me

Forgotten my friends and family

So I went out and I got for me and shiny new Mercedes

So I'd get more from the ladies to sit and stare

Look at me but it's not their fault the fault's with me

So I ram that car into a tree

And start walking

You can make a killing at the gas pumps

You can get your dinner from the garbage dumps

You can keep all your dreams about making it big

Me and my friends just don't dream like that anymore

So I complacently turn back to the TV to wash my brain of the memory

The college loans that were choking me

And I forgot how it felt to believe without responsibility

Well I never wanted normalcy just a quiet girl that sees only me

And a Jesus Christ that's void of greed

And a government void of deceit

But it's not their fault with fault's with me

So I unplugged my TV

Said the only prayer that I can think of

I'm overjoyed with excitement.

That we will all one day get out

Of this maze of our own self-deception

That it's our wallets that are the ones bringing us down