Hush Money

(album: Finish Lines - 1988)

Watching the mail box behind the door with the double locks
And sipping on his Maalox, this old man
And every month a little check will come
He'd save a little and he'd squander some
He's got to have it but he'll never understand

He's living on hush money, hush money, hush money
Only making sure
Hush money
Socially secure

A suburban house wife, the little woman with the little life
Her husband works the nights away
He keeps her happy with the charge accounts
A little habit for the large amounts
And since I love you, she said, let me count the way

Depending on hush money, hush money, hush money
Getting handed down
Hush money
Makes the world go round

You could save it for a rainy day
You could up and blow it all away
Doesn't matter as long as you keep it down, keep it down
You could spend it on a younger girl
You could buy we are the world
Finance the revolution in the underground

But turn off the TV, there's starving children here on channel three
I'll send a check for what it means to me I know

Defensible hush money, hush money, hush money
Getting handed down
Hush money
Makes the world go round
Hush money, hush money, hush money, hush money
You got me counting on
Hush money
World go round
Hush money
It's getting handed down
Hush money, hush money, hush money
World go round
Hush money
It's getting handed down
Hush money