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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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G# barrell of monkeys
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Or band of renown
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Business as usual
D# G#m A#7/G# E7sus/G# G#5
Is breakin' me down
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Breakin' me down