You throw money at me People smile and slap my back Full-ride my boy! You are set for life I can't stuff dollar bills in broken vertebrae Your filthy cash won't balm my burns Nor wipe away my bullet scars Your ******* money can't ease my mind It isn't patchworked convalescence for wicked dreams I would trade all of the money in the world I would knock down this castle of pennies To not be nickeled and dimed For a quarter of the functionality That my body once had
Sorry guys, I wrote this when I was medically retired from the U.S. Army. It still brings a tear to my eye thinking about the day they told me that my spine wasn't going to function correctly for the rest of my life.