Fm G7/F E7sus/F F5
Look at the weather, look at the news
Fm G7/F E7sus/G F5
Look at all the people in denial
Fm G7/F
We're running time, leaving grace
E7sus/F F5
Still we worship at the marketplace
Fm G7/F E7sus/F F5
While common sense is goin' out of style
A#m Fm
I thought that I would be above it all by now
A#m C# C
In some country garden in the shade
A#m7 A#m6 A#m7 A#m6
But it's business as usual
Fm7 Fm6 Fm7 Fm6
Day after day
A#m7 A#m6 A#m7 A#m6
Business as usual
Fm7 Fm6 Fm7 Fm6
Just grinding away
A#m7 A#m6 Cm7 A#m6
You try to be righteous
Fm7 Fm6 Fm7 Fm6
You try to do good
C#
But business as usual
C Fm
Turns your heart into wood
Fm G7/G E7sus/G F5
Monuments to arrogance reach for the sky
Fm G7/G E7sus/G F5
Our better nature's buried in the rubble
Fm G7/G E7sus/G F5
We got the prettiest White House that money can buy
Fm G7/G E7sus/G F5
Sitting up there in that beltway bubble
A#m Fm
The main jefe talks about our freedom
A#m C# C
But this is what he really means...
A#m7 A#m6 A#m7 A#m6
Business as usual
Fm7 Fm6 Fm7 Fm6
How dirty we play
A#m7 A#m6 A#m7 A#m6
Business as usual
Fm7 Fm6 Fm7 Fm6
Don't you get in the way
A#m7 A#m6 A#m7 A#m6
Yeah, make you feel helpless
Fm7 Fm6 Fm7 Fm6
Make you feel like a clown
C#
Business as usual
C Fm
Is breakin' me down
C# C Fm
Boy, you can't go surfing in Century City
A#m C Fm
Yeah, them sharks out there are lurking beneath the curb
C# C Fm A#m
Yeah, they rob you blind, chew you up, and it ain't pretty
C# Gb
And it's a soul suckin', soul suckin', soul suckin', soul suckin'
C
Soul suckin', soul suckin' world
A#m Fm A#m Fm A#m Fm C# C
A#m7 A#m6 A#m7 A#m6
Business as usual
Fm7 Fm6 Fm7 Fm6
Day after day
A#m7 A#m6 A#m7 A#m6
Business as usual
Fm7 Fm6 Fm7 Fm6
Feel like walking away
A#m7 A#m6 A#m7 A#m6
F barrell of monkeys
Fm7 Fm6 Fm7 Fm6
Or band of renown
C#
Business as usual
C Fm G7/F E7sus/F F5
Is breakin' me down
Fm G7/F E7sus/F Fm
Breakin' me down