Business as Usual

Look at the weather
Look at the news
Look at all the people in denialWe're runnin time, leavin grace
Still we worship at the marketplace
While common sense is goin' out of styleI thought that I would be above it all by now
In some country garden in the shadeBut it's business as usual
Day after day
Business as usual
Just grindin awayYou try to be righteous
You try to do good
Business as usual
Turn your heart into woodMonuments to arrogance
Reach for the sky
Our better nature's buried in the rubbleWe got the prettiest White House
That money can buy
Sittin up there in that beltway bubbleWhen any hippie talks about our freedom
Well, this is what he really meansBusiness as usual
How dirty we play
Business as usual
Don't you get in the wayYeah, make you feel helpless
Make you feel like a clown
Business as usual
Is breakin' me downBoy, 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 suckin', soul suckin', soul suckin'
Soul suckin' soul suckin', soul suckin' worldBusiness as usual
Day after day
Business as usual
Feel like walkin awayA barrel of monkeys
Or band of renown
Business as usual
Is breakin' me down
Breakin' me down