Honey, We Can't Afford to Look This Cheap

Album: not released on an album (2007)
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    Well, I want to try and hold my head up high
    In this busted-up Pinto truck
    Conversion between the
    Broken concrete and the cloudy sky
    Well, you have to make an effort with me
    Can you make it look
    Like you're chauffeuring me?
    There's enough gas to get us
    Home now if we glide
    When we took this job I thought
    That you knew the deal
    I told the boss we had
    A Mercedes-Benz but all
    We got in our yard is a steering wheel
    Well, I can't borrow this tuxedo much longer
    Well, we might have to cut
    And sell your long hair
    I don't mind you wearing a
    Wig but I won't steal

    Well, honey
    We can't afford to look this cheap

    We need to make it look like we're
    High class, so we'll haul ourself on
    We can't be beat
    I can't help but wonder, this time next year
    Will we be drinking Dom
    Perignon or reheated beer?

    We have to keep up appearances
    As long as we can
    There's too much to lose, our social
    Status, well, our ice machine
    And our ceiling fan
    And if they find out that
    We ain't real songwriters
    That we go Dutch on cigarette lighters
    We're going to lose the paradise
    That's in our hands

    Got an image to live up to here
    In the best motel on Imposter Street
    While the Joneses are waltzing off to dinner
    We're gluing old lottery tickets together
    Trying to make us a winner well, honey
    We can't afford to look this cheap Writer/s: JOHN ANTHONY WHITE
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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