Am B7/A E7sus/A A5
Look at the weather, look at the news
Am B7/A E7sus/B A5
Look at all the people in denial
Am B7/A
We're running time, leaving grace
E7sus/A A5
Still we worship at the marketplace
Am B7/A E7sus/A A5
While common sense is goin' out of style
Dm Am
I thought that I would be above it all by now
Dm F E
In some country garden in the shade
Dm7 Dm6 Dm7 Dm6
But it's business as usual
Am7 Am6 Am7 Am6
Day after day
Dm7 Dm6 Dm7 Dm6
Business as usual
Am7 Am6 Am7 Am6
Just grinding away
Dm7 Dm6 Em7 Dm6
You try to be righteous
Am7 Am6 Am7 Am6
You try to do good
F
But business as usual
E Am
Turns your heart into wood
Am B7/B E7sus/B A5
Monuments to arrogance reach for the sky
Am B7/B E7sus/B A5
Our better nature's buried in the rubble
Am B7/B E7sus/B A5
We got the prettiest White House that money can buy
Am B7/B E7sus/B A5
Sitting up there in that beltway bubble
Dm Am
The main jefe talks about our freedom
Dm F E
But this is what he really means...
Dm7 Dm6 Dm7 Dm6
Business as usual
Am7 Am6 Am7 Am6
How dirty we play
Dm7 Dm6 Dm7 Dm6
Business as usual
Am7 Am6 Am7 Am6
Don't you get in the way
Dm7 Dm6 Dm7 Dm6
Yeah, make you feel helpless
Am7 Am6 Am7 Am6
Make you feel like a clown
F
Business as usual
E Am
Is breakin' me down
F E Am
Boy, you can't go surfing in Century City
Dm E Am
Yeah, them sharks out there are lurking beneath the curb
F E Am Dm
Yeah, they rob you blind, chew you up, and it ain't pretty
F A#
And it's a soul suckin', soul suckin', soul suckin', soul suckin'
E
Soul suckin', soul suckin' world
Dm Am Dm Am Dm Am F E
Dm7 Dm6 Dm7 Dm6
Business as usual
Am7 Am6 Am7 Am6
Day after day
Dm7 Dm6 Dm7 Dm6
Business as usual
Am7 Am6 Am7 Am6
Feel like walking away
Dm7 Dm6 Dm7 Dm6
A barrell of monkeys
Am7 Am6 Am7 Am6
Or band of renown
F
Business as usual
E Am B7/A E7sus/A A5
Is breakin' me down
Am B7/A E7sus/A Am
Breakin' me down