| Look at the weather, look at the news
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| Look at all the people in denial
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| We’re running time, leaving grace
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| Still we worship at the marketplace
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| While common sense is goin’out of style
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| I thought that I would be above it all by now
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| In some country garden in the shade
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| But it’s business as usual
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| Day after day
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| Business as usual
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| Just grinding away
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| You try to be righteous
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| You try to do good
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| But business as usual
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| Turns your heart into wood
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| Monuments to arrogance reach for the sky
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| Our better nature’s buried in the rubble
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| We got the prettiest White House that money can buy
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| Sitting up there in that beltway bubble
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| The main jefe talks about our freedom
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| But this is what he really means…
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| Business as usual
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| How dirty we play
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| Business as usual
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| Don’t you get in the way
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| Yeah, make you feel helpless
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| Make you feel like a clown
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| Business as usual
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| Is breakin’me down
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| Boy, you can’t go surfing in Century City
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| Yeah, them sharks out there are lurking beneath the curb
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| Yeah, they rob you blind, chew you up, and it ain’t pretty
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| And it’s a soul suckin', soul suckin', soul suckin', soul suckin'
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| Soul suckin', soul suckin’world
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| Business as usual
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| Day after day
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| Business as usual
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| Feel like walking away
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| A barrell of monkeys
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| Or band of renown
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| Business as usual
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| Is breakin’me down
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| Breakin’me down |