Automated Lift (song for QE)

With apologies to Elton John.....

Goodbye, then, QE
Though I never liked you at all
You ensured financial markets
Answered the Fed's each beck and call
You'd show your hand each morning
And you'd get into our brains
While you raised the stock of reserves
They gave you a fancy name

And it seems to me that you lived your life
Like an automated lift
You took financial assets
To the sky
And I would have liked to known how
The economy had done
If you were kept in the Fed's pocket
After QE #1

The early years were tough
The toughest rally you ever made
Eurozone created catastrophe
And pain was the price we paid
And even when you died
Oh the press still hounded you
All the papers had to say
Is "We need QE 2!"

And it seems to me that you lived your life
Like an automated lift
You took financial assets
To the sky
And I would have liked to known how
The economy had done
If you were kept in the Fed's pocket
After QE #1

Goodbye, then, QE
Though I never liked you at all
You ensured financial markets
Answered the Fed's each beck and call
Goodbye, then, QE
From the man you drove off of the street
Who sees you as the enemy of anyone
Who thinks while in a seat