Inside Job Lyrics - Don Henley

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  1. Dwight Ward

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    I can't find a video or free recording of this. The lyrics are spot-on for these days.

    You think that you're so smart
    But you don't have a *obscenity-ing* clue
    What those men up in the towers
    Are doing to me and you


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    While you were sleeping
    They came and took it all away
    The lanes and the meadows
    The places where you used to play

    It was an inside job
    By the well-connected
    Your little protest
    Summarily rejected

    It was an inside job
    Like it always is
    Chalk it up to business as usual

    While we are dreaming
    This little island disappears
    While you are looking the other way
    They'll take your right to own your own ideas

    And it's an inside job
    Favors collected
    Your trusted servants
    Have left you unprotected

    It was an inside job
    Like it always is
    Just chalk it up
    To business as usual

    You think that you're so smart
    But you don't have a *obscenity-ing* clue
    What those men up in the towers
    Are doing to me and you
    And they'll keep doin' it and doin' it
    And doin' it and doin' it
    And doin' it and doin' it
    And doin' it and doin' it
    Until we all wake up
    Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up

    I know what I've done wrong
    I am acquainted with the night
    I know how hard it is
    To always walk out in the light

    And it's an inside job
    To learn about forgiving
    It's an inside job
    To hang on to the joy of living

    They know the road by which you came
    They know your mother's maiden name
    And what you had for breakfast
    And what you've hidden in the mattress

    Insect politics
    Indifferent universe
    Bang your head against the wall
    But apathy is worse

    It's an inside job
    It's an inside job
     
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    re "insect politics"

    Note that without insects the planet would die.

    Without people the world would recover from being severely over-polluted and would thrive.

    Without politics...... people might get a chance at least once to put their trust in the Creator from Whom All Life Comes
    instead of continually trusting in the flesh/ men of the world or demons/ and beind continually cursed.

    Everyone's been born into this evil generation. Escaping the wickedness is rare and only possible by God's Grace.
     
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    Any protest gets .... well, reduced to ashes, or replaced with ineffective goggly-gook double double speak.

    Think taking something up via an appeal to someone or some office 'higher' than the problem seen?
    As if it could be properly and rightly corrected ?

    Just find more at every level and realize it is all futile in man's systems >
     
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    The original song is Leave No Millionaire Behind. I honestly don't think mere millionaires are the problem. It's the sociopathic billionaires on this planet that are trying to kill us. This song is twenty years old but it is describing the now. I loved it the first time I heard it that long ago.

    Pierce Woodward wrote many political tunes and kept up a diatribe against the wealthy of the world. This song is from the album of the same name. I couldn't find the lyrics online so I took time to record them by listening. It took a good while and there may be some mistakes. There are some differences between the two versions. The link is to an excellent cover by Childsplay. I like both versions a lot. Maybe you will, too.



    The submarines are stationed
    All the allies are aligned
    The olive trees were stolen from the banks of Palestine

    Look it over from the inside
    Take a breath, relax the mind
    And the things that we are seeking we will find

    In the city folks are banging pots and spoons from balconies
    Cause the Pennsylvania police are bewildered and diseased
    But the journalist on death row is refusing to resign
    And the power and the glory will revive

    Leave no millionaire behind, boys, leave no millionaire behind
    I'll get yours if you get mine, we'll leave no millionaire behind

    The styrofoam is mixed in with aluminum and glass
    The economists have spoken so we're truckin' out the trash
    The water tastes like copper
    All the filters quickly clog
    And our lungs are full of freshener and smog

    Leave no millionaire behind, boys, leave no millionaire behind
    I'll get yours if you get mine, we'll leave no millionaire behind

    The inspector says he doesn't think he trusts the engineers
    We're sleeping by the fire 'cause we're told that danger's near
    Mesmerized by burdens, mesmerized by fear
    We are waiting for a hero to appear

    Leave no millionaire behind, boys, leave no millionaire behind
    I'll get yours if you get mine, we'll leave no millionaire behind

    I'll get yours if you get mine, we'll leave no millionaire behind
    I'll get yours if you get mine, we'll leave no millionaire behind

    But our children's eyes can see what we so long could not
    Beyond a crooked mile the perpetrators were all caught
    Through a haze of trouble the sky starts to clear
    Beyond the littered land we're breathin' clear

    Leave no millionaire behind, boys, leave no millionaire behind
    I'll get yours if you get mine, we'll leave no millionaire behind

    I'll get yours if you get mine, we'll leave no millionaire behind
    I'll get yours if you get mine, we'll leave no millionaire behind
     

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