| Keep Your Money | ||
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| Dangerous Bonds | ||
| Album: | Original Soundtrack from Season 1 of Empire (Deluxe) | |
| By: | Empire Cast | |
| Sung by: | Jamal Lyon | |
| Place: | Buggy Down Studio | |
Keep Your Money is an original song, featured in the Season 1 episode, Dangerous Bonds and is briefly featured in False Imposition, as it foreshadows the end of Jamal's writer's block. It is performed by Jamal Lyon and is featured in the album Original Soundtrack from Season 1 of Empire (Deluxe) and Empire: Music From Dangerous Bonds.
Jamal records a new song at the Buggy Down studio then listen to play back when Cookie calls, as she advises him on it.
Lyrics[]
Jamal
Intro:
(You got that?
Get your hand-
Give me my money!
Stop stop, I told you to stop
I'm not doing this anymore!
Give me my money!)
Beggars can't be choosers, huh?
Uh-huh, listen
Verse 1:
Dollar, dollar bill ya'll
Everybody lookin' for somethin'
Can make you wanna kill, ya'll
You can't get somethin' for nothin'
Work hard and play even harder
Gotta save up all my nickels and quarters
Can't ask you for a handout
It's time to be a man now
Chorus:
I don't need it, you can keep your money
I don't want it if you gonna throw it up in my face
I'm still leavin', you can keep your money
Because you ain't worth the time
Can't let it go to waste
(Money) Makes the world go 'round
(M-m-money) Makes the world go 'round
I'm hungry and you got me goin' (give me my money!)
I'm hungry and you got me goin' (give me my money!)
Verse 2:
Temporary lay off
Guess that all the good times are over
When will it ever pay off?
I guess I didn't know when to fold em'
Work long, so I can play all the time
Gotta save up all my nickels and dimes
Can't ask you for a handout
It's time to be a man now
Chorus:
I don't need it, you can keep your money
I don't want it if you gonna throw it up in my face
I'm still leavin', you can keep your money
Because you ain't worth the time
Can't let it go to waste
(Money) Makes the world go 'round
(M-m-money) Makes the world go 'round
I'm hungry and you got me goin' (give me my money!)
I'm hungry and you got me goin' (give me my money!)
