penned this many moons ago... and the more it changes the more it stays the same..
apologies once more to Jimmy Barnes
left my heart to the cappers with 10 grand And my soul was sold with my certificates to the Blackstone hedge fund man I've had the Centro shops cold turkey From the ocean to the Silver City And it's only Hot-copperites could understand
About the long forgotten bank loan guarantees How there were no day trading heroes in 1973 How we sailed into stormy waters Saw an old friend but I couldn't short her She was sub-primed, but I was loaned in the lucky land
And she was like so many banks from that time on Their accounts were all so empty, till they found their chosen one And their rates were often open But their loans were always closed And their assets were held in suburban fast food chains And the legal pads were yellow, hours long, dividend stream lean And the paper-column writers clattered where the shoppers once had been But the car parks made me jumpy And I never stopped the dreams Or the growing need for a rollover and a divvie plan
So I worked across the country end to end Tried to find shopping centres to sell off, so my mixed up life could mend Held a job refying car-loans Snipping commish there when I could But the Alt-A’s nearly drove me round the bend
And I've travelled round the banks from year to year And each one found me funds less, one more year the more for wear And I've been back to South East Asia But the answer sure ain't there But I'm drifting north, to check Blackstone again
You know the last loan out of Centro’s almost gone Only seven trading days, and I'll be reading what went wrong There ain't nothing like the kisses From a jaded HC princess I'm gonna hit some short term punters all night long
Well the last loan out of Centro’s almost gone Yeah the last loan out of Centro’s almost gone And it's really got me worried The funds are nowhere and I'm in a hurry And the last loan out of Centro’s almost gone
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