Money

• Money

  Yetundey  

  • Lyrics

    Pretty girl get outa' high school
    She got all them good grades, good friends, life’s cool.
    People tell her now is her time, now life begins
    But she doesn’t see what possibly could be her thing.
    She is empty, at 18 she already has no dreams but living a luxurious life
    Yes, she’d like to be a queen
    So that’s her goal.
    No single passion is involved.
    As long as she can afford all she wants she’s fine with selling her soul.
    She get’s a fancy job with a fancy name on a fancy lane,
    playing shady games but who cares when her shades are from Ray Ban.
    She got a Benz at the expense of having no more time to see her friends.
    How does that even make sense?
    It’s not her fault
    She has been taught joy comes from what you’ve bought
    And success depends on the zeros after the comma.
    If needed fall into a coma first.
    This generation has been raised with such a thirst,
    Demanding for more
    Throw our values at the door.
    Salary beats sanity
    And status goes over family
    But she ain’t heartless!
    She pays a check to charity
    She does that every other week
    After going shopping in Paris.
    She is fulfilled, yes she’s whole
    But only until she is deprived of all she owns
    Her life is built on possessions
    no emotional expression

    And all her life she waits for that moment to come when she finally moves on
    Yes, all her life she wants more ‘n more
    She want, she want

    She want that money
    Gold and diamond ring rings
    she want all that bling-bling
    She just wants the money
    Gold and diamond ring rings
    she want everything
    She just wants the money

    She did it all, she reached the skies
    But what does it matter.
    She’s at the top of the ladder, still she couldn’t be sadder
    Yes, she’s empty at 43, she’s never been able to dream
    Even with luxuries of a queen. But what is left behind the scenes?
    She has a big house where she lives alone.
    Her only lover is Luis Vuitton.
    She used to wear chucks now she goes to Starbucks every day
    Cause she can’t even make her own café.
    And she’ll go out of her way just to drink champagne although she hates the taste
    But wants to be part of this race
    Has accustomed to be a disgrace.
    Though she’s a role model to our society
    No one sees that it’s a role she’s been modelling for eternity.
    Cause she thought time is money and you need money to pay the bills
    to get some recognition and safety and buy a lovely house on the hills.
    Offer something to her family,
    But she never got ‘round to that.
    Instead she sat night and day in the office trying fulfil the stats.
    And she has tried several times to escape, but she’s stuck.
    It’s a vicious cycle, money is a drug
    And all the things that come with it are hard to just give up.
    When she tried to quit, they just raised her split.
    They manage to trick her over and over, they suck her out just like a dick
    Until she’s a burnt out old witch
    Lonely,
    Left with only one wish
    That she never got rich

    And all her life she waits for that moment to come when she finally moves on
    Yes, all her life she wants more ‘n more
    She want, she want

    She want that money
    Gold and diamond ring rings
    She want all that bling-bling
    She just wants the money
    Gold and diamond ring rings
    She want everything
    She just wants the money

  1

She just wants the money

Money is Yetundey’s latest single (Release 21.06).  It is so far her  closest track to mainstream Pop. Thematically related to her song “Big City Life” from her EP “See No Evil”, “Money” narrates the journey of an ambitious young girl who “at 18 she already has no dreams but living a luxurious life” and works hard to achieve this goal.

“All her life she waits for the moment to come when she finally moves on.”

Far from being judgemental, Yetundey insists on the character’s good nature, “she is not heartless”. She goes shopping in Paris, yes, and at the same time, she sends cheques to charity every month. The character described in Money is not the greedy, power hungry type, nor does she get corrupted by the money and the “bling-bling”.

A vicious cycle, money is a drug

In Money, Yetundey lays the focus on the hidden side of the “bling-bling” and success. Yetundey places side by side, the choices and sacrifices made in order to attain the goal of becoming rich. She ends up living in opulence but alone.  

The young girl whose dream it was to “reach the top of ladder” is “empty at 43”. Even with the luxuries worthy of a queen, she is not able to dream beyond that one wish of financial independence. The question might be, once the dream has been lived and the goal reached, and there is nothing left to dream about, what are you left with? 

“She’s a burnt out old witch

Lonely,

Left with only one wish”