Lyrics

You want the high life
Want the high life..

Chorus 1

You want the high life
You want the high life
They live the high life, but then again
The one percent
Have all the wealth

Verse 1

A pauper’s dreams
Travelogues and limousines
The joker plays the pawn

While kings and queens
Shuffle cards on croquet greens
Hissing of Summer Lawns (Joni Mitchell)

Autumn to Spring
You’ve been ‘nickel and dime-ing’
It’s eat or it’s keep warm

These puppet strings
The sum and total of all things
Equals: You don’t belong!

Chorus 2

You want the high life
You want the high life
They live the high life, but then again
The one percent
Have all the wealth

To live the high life
They live the high life
You want the high life, but then again
The one percent
Took all your wealth

Verse 2

A credit card’s
The closest you’ll come to bourgeois
Your ledger’s overdrawn

As the old vanguards
Use your debt to fly upper-class
You traipse the shopping malls

You live pay to pay
As they kit out their recherché
Mont Saint Michel chalets (and you’re paying to work)

No passion play
No Au pair making ‘sweet soufflé’
No Mustique getaway

Chorus 3

You want the high life
You want the high life
They live the high life, but then again
The one percent
Have all the wealth

To live the high life
They live the high life
You want the high life, but then again
The one percent
Took all your wealth
(You can’t even afford your own health)

Bridge

Money money
Money money, to live the high life...

Chorus 4 & 5


You want the life where all your dreams come true
A world of possibilities for you
With style, and magazine cachet
Chateaux Margaux, casinos and a yacht that bears your name (wealth!)

You want the life where all your dreams come true
A world of possibilities for you
A private Learjet - fly away!
Osetrova, Petrossian Beluga and
eggs Fabergé… high!