Business As Usual

Look at the weather Look at the news Look at all the people in denial We're runnin? time, leavin? grace Still we worship at the marketplace While common sense is goin' out of style I thought that I would be above it all by now In some country garden in the shade But it's business as usual Day after day Business as usual Just grindin? away You try to be righteous You try to do good Business as usual Turn your heart into wood Monuments to arrogance Reach for the sky Our better nature's buried in the rubble We got the prettiest White House That money can buy Sittin? up there in that beltway bubble When any hippie talks about our freedom Well, this is what he really means Business as usual How dirty we play Business as usual Don't you get in the way Yeah, make you feel helpless Make you feel like a clown Business as usual Is breakin' me down Boy, you can't go surfin? in Century City Yeah, them sharks out there are lurkin? beneath the curb Yeah, they rob you blind, chew you up and it ain't pretty And it's a soul s*ckin', soul s*ckin', soul s*ckin' Soul s*ckin' soul s*ckin', soul s*ckin' world Business as usual Day after day Business as usual Feel like walkin? away A barrel of monkeys Or band of renown Business as usual Is breakin' me down Breakin' me down