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Look at the weather, look at the news
Bm C#7/B E7sus/C# B5
Look at all the people in denial
Bm C#7/B
We're running time, leaving grace
E7sus/B B5
Still we worship at the marketplace
Bm C#7/B E7sus/B B5
While common sense is goin' out of style
Em Bm
I thought that I would be above it all by now
Em G F#
In some country garden in the shade
Em7 Em6 Em7 Em6
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
G
But business as usual
F# Bm
Turns your heart into wood
Bm C#7/C# E7sus/C# B5
Monuments to arrogance reach for the sky
Bm C#7/C# E7sus/C# B5
Our better nature's buried in the rubble
Bm C#7/C# E7sus/C# B5
We got the prettiest White House that money can buy
Bm C#7/C# E7sus/C# B5
Sitting up there in that beltway bubble
Em Bm
The main jefe talks about our freedom
Em G F#
But this is what he really means...
Em7 Em6 Em7 Em6
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
G
Business as usual
F# Bm
Is breakin' me down
G F# Bm
Boy, you can't go surfing in Century City
Em F# Bm
Yeah, them sharks out there are lurking beneath the curb
G F# Bm Em
Yeah, they rob you blind, chew you up, and it ain't pretty
G C
And it's a soul suckin', soul suckin', soul suckin', soul suckin'
F#
Soul suckin', soul suckin' world
Em Bm Em Bm Em Bm G F#
Em7 Em6 Em7 Em6
Business as usual
Bm7 Bm6 Bm7 Bm6
Day after day
Em7 Em6 Em7 Em6
Business as usual
Bm7 Bm6 Bm7 Bm6
Feel like walking away
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B barrell of monkeys
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Or band of renown
G
Business as usual
F# Bm C#7/B E7sus/B B5
Is breakin' me down
Bm C#7/B E7sus/B Bm
Breakin' me down