Up in Smoke

I grew up believin' You measured a man by his name By the land he owns beneath his boots And the fortune that he's claimed I only saw the dollar Consumed to reach the top Thought the more I had to show Would prove I made my mark Money ain't nothin' but numbers Names get made and then they're gone Yeah, pride can build a kingdom Time tears it down, stone by stone We spend our whole lives lookin' For things we wanna own But everything we're holding In the end... Goes up in smoke The years have a way of showing What a younger man don't see Everything that I had worked for Never really carried me I've seen good men get forgotten Watched fortunes come and go The higher that I got The less I seemed to know Money ain't nothin' but numbers Names get made and then they're gone Pride can build a kingdom Time tears it down, stone by stone Everything we're holding Goes up in smoke I've stacked it to the ceiling I carved my name in stone But time don't care what I got When it's time to leave it all Money ain't nothin' but numbers Names get made and then they're gone Yeah, pride can build a kingdom Time tears it down, stone by stone We spend our whole lives lookin' For things we wanna own But everything we're holding In the end... Goes up in smoke Yeah, everything we're holding Goes up in smoke