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A penny for my thoughts, oh no I'll sell them for a dollar
They're worth so much more after I'm a goner
And maybe then you'll hear the words I been singin'
Funny when you're dead how people start listenin'
She saying who when she was alive that people never listen to her or took her serious in anything she did and she's saying if she ever did die people would soon come running and talking to her and take her seriously and listen to what she was saying that why she say's: "dwhen your dead you're dead how people start listenin'"and A penny for my thoughts,oh onto I'll sell them for a doller. They're worth a lot more when I'm a gonna' is that her thoughts to some people aren't worth nothing to them now but she knows when she dies that they soon are!