Primal Scream - Innocent Money (Official Video)

The official video for 'Innocent Money' by Primal Scream. The new Primal Scream album 'Come Ahead' is out now: https://primalscream.lnk.to/ComeAheadID Follow Primal Scream: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primalscreamofficial YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@primalscreamofficial Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreamofficial/ X: https://twitter.com/ScreamOfficial Website: https://www.primalscream.net/ Credits: Directed by Douglas Hart: https://www.instagram.com/douglashartfilm/ Produced by Juliette Larthe: https://www.instagram.com/juliette_larthe/ Styled by Lydia Simpson: https://www.instagram.com/lydia_simpson_/ Lyrics: At night he sleeps on garbage heap streets  On the mattress he keeps strapped to his back  Of sleeping bag and rags  In a five-star shop doorway or underpass home  Canal wind cutting deep through his bones  And a wrap of smack and the mattress on his back  Are all that he owns  And nobody visits and nobody cares    INNOCENT MONEY !  Weighing our worth in it  INNOCENT MONEY  Surrender our lives to it  INNOCENT MONEY  There’s never enough of it  INNOCENT MONEY  Swimming in sewers for it    His cold dead stare and filthy grease matted hair  Makes the civilians scared as they walk on by  With their pious eyes glued to the floor  And they’ve got no clue that he didn’t choose  His pavement blues  And the world keeps turning just a little more  And all he can hope for is some money to score  Some money to score    INNOCENT MONEY  We place all our trust in it  INNOCENT MONEY  We pray to our gods for it  INNOCENT MONEY  Is the King of the World  INNOCENT MONEY  It’s the Devil himself    From Buckingham Palace to sink estate slums  Imperial nostalgia, the eagle has flown  Britannia’s resigned to managed decline  The fox guards the chickens, the chickens don’t mind  The system is rigged like a Vegas casino  We’re most of us born with a busted flush  Marx’s pipe dream of a classless society  IS further away than the mountains of Mars    INNOCENT MONEY  A lifetime of work  INNOCENT MONEY  With nothing to show for it  INNOCENT MONEY  ‘Cept a face full of worry  INNOCENT MONEY  And a fist-full of air    The bourgeois bastards just keep stealing  And selling the dreaming of the lie-lie-lies  That undermine our lives  The slugs at the bottom feed the wolves at the top  Growth spreads upwards ever only  There’s no ‘trickle down – trickle down’  Our souls are worth more than the warmth of the sun  They’ve tricked us to believe that our work is never done  Cognitive dissonance  Proud of your ignorance  Subjects nor citizens  Never read a book  Too scared to take a look  Too scared to take a look    Market theology  Makes a lie of ‘Democracy’  We’d swim in a sewer for it  Drowning in debt for it  Market realities  Closed down the factories  A rope made of gold  To hang ourselves on  #PrimalScream #InnocentMoney #ComeAhead