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Inside Job

This version of Inside Job was released by Don Henley in 2000.

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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 fucking 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
It’s an inside job
Yeh, yeah

It’s an inside job
It’s an inside job
It’s an inside job
It’s an inside job

It’s an inside job
It’s an inside job

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