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(Don Henley/Mike Campbell) |
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While you were sleeping |
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They came and took it all away |
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The lanes and the meadows |
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The places where you used to play |
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It was an inside job |
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By the well-connected |
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Your little protest |
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Summarily rejected |
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It was an inside job |
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Like it always is |
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Chalk it up to business as usual |
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While we are dreaming |
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This little island disappears |
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While you are looking the other way |
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They'll take your right to own your own ideas |
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And it's an inside job |
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Favors collected |
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Your trusted servants |
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Have left you unprotected |
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It was an inside job |
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Like it always is |
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Just chalk it up |
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To business as usual |
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You think that you're so smart |
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But you don't have a fucking clue |
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What those men up in the towers |
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Are doing to me and you |
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And they'll keep doin' it and doin' it |
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And doin' it and doin' it |
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And doin' it and doin' it |
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And doin' it and doin' it |
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Until we all wake up |
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Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up |
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I know what |
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I've done wrong |
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I am acquainted with the night |
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I know how hard it is |
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To always walk out in the light |
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And it's an inside job |
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To learn about forgiving |
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It's an inside job |
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To hang on to the joy of living |
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They know the road by which you came |
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They know your mother's maiden name |
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And what you had for breakfast |
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And what you've hidden in the mattress |
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Insect politics |
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Indifferent universe |
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Bang your head against the wall |
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But apathy is worse |
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It's an inside job |
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It's an inside job |
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It's an inside job |
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Yeh, yeah |
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It's an inside job |
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It's an inside job |
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It's an inside job |
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It's an inside job |
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It's an inside job |
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It's an inside job |
