D#m F7/D# E7sus/D# D#5
Look at the weather, look at the news
D#m F7/D# E7sus/F D#5
Look at all the people in denial
D#m F7/D#
We're running time, leaving grace
E7sus/D# D#5
Still we worship at the marketplace
D#m F7/D# E7sus/D# D#5
While common sense is goin' out of style
G#m D#m
I thought that I would be above it all by now
G#m B A#
In some country garden in the shade
G#m7 G#m6 G#m7 G#m6
But it's business as usual
D#m7 D#m6 D#m7 D#m6
Day after day
G#m7 G#m6 G#m7 G#m6
Business as usual
D#m7 D#m6 D#m7 D#m6
Just grinding away
G#m7 G#m6 A#m7 G#m6
You try to be righteous
D#m7 D#m6 D#m7 D#m6
You try to do good
B
But business as usual
A# D#m
Turns your heart into wood
D#m F7/F E7sus/F D#5
Monuments to arrogance reach for the sky
D#m F7/F E7sus/F D#5
Our better nature's buried in the rubble
D#m F7/F E7sus/F D#5
We got the prettiest White House that money can buy
D#m F7/F E7sus/F D#5
Sitting up there in that beltway bubble
G#m D#m
The main jefe talks about our freedom
G#m B A#
But this is what he really means...
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Business as usual
D#m7 D#m6 D#m7 D#m6
How dirty we play
G#m7 G#m6 G#m7 G#m6
Business as usual
D#m7 D#m6 D#m7 D#m6
Don't you get in the way
G#m7 G#m6 G#m7 G#m6
Yeah, make you feel helpless
D#m7 D#m6 D#m7 D#m6
Make you feel like a clown
B
Business as usual
A# D#m
Is breakin' me down
B A# D#m
Boy, you can't go surfing in Century City
G#m A# D#m
Yeah, them sharks out there are lurking beneath the curb
B A# D#m G#m
Yeah, they rob you blind, chew you up, and it ain't pretty
B Fb
And it's a soul suckin', soul suckin', soul suckin', soul suckin'
A#
Soul suckin', soul suckin' world
G#m D#m G#m D#m G#m D#m B A#
G#m7 G#m6 G#m7 G#m6
Business as usual
D#m7 D#m6 D#m7 D#m6
Day after day
G#m7 G#m6 G#m7 G#m6
Business as usual
D#m7 D#m6 D#m7 D#m6
Feel like walking away
G#m7 G#m6 G#m7 G#m6
D# barrell of monkeys
D#m7 D#m6 D#m7 D#m6
Or band of renown
B
Business as usual
A# D#m F7/D# E7sus/D# D#5
Is breakin' me down
D#m F7/D# E7sus/D# D#m
Breakin' me down