Dave Matthews/ Bruce Cockburn
Sometimes I feel like I am falling...
Fall back again, fall back again...
Fall back again, fall back again...
Oh, life it seems a struggle between
What we see, what we do
I'm not going to change my ways
Just to please you or appease you
Look at this crowd, nine thousand proud
Willing to punch it out
Right, wrong, weak, strong
Ashes to ashes all fall down
Look around about this round about
About this merry-go-round and round
If at all God's gaze upon us fall
It's with a mischievous grin, look at Him
Forget about the reasons and
The treasons we are seeking...
Forget about the notion that
Our emotion can be kept at bay.
Forget about being guilty,
We are innocent instead...
For soon we will all find our lives swept away
Oh, look at me in my fancy car,
And my bank account...
Oh, how I wish I could take it all down
Down to my grave, God knows I'd save and save
Man, take a look again, take a look again,
Things you have collected,
Well, in the end it all piles up so tall
To one big nothing, one big nothing at all
Forget about the reasons and
The treasons we are seeking...
Forget about the notion that
Our emotion can be kept at bay
Forget about being guilty,
We are innocent instead
For soon we will all find our lives swept away
You seek up an emotion,
And your cup is overflowing.
You seek up an emotion,
Sometimes your well is dry.
You seek up a big monster
For him to fight your wars for you
But when he finds his way to you,
The devil's not going "Ha, ha, ha, ha."
Say, Oh Say...
Oh... Late at night, with TV's hungry child,
His belly swells...
Oh, for a price of a coke or a smoke
I could keep alive those hungy eyes
Man, take a look again, take a look again, take a look again,
Everyday things change, basically they stay the same
Forget about the reasons and
The treasons we are seeking...
Forget about the notion that
Our emotion can be kept at bay
Forget about being guilty,
We are innocent instead
For soon we will all find our lives swept away
You seek up an emotion,
And your cup is overflowing...
You seek up an emotion,
Sometimes your well is dry...
You seek up a big monster
For him to fight your wars for you,
But when he finds his way to you,
The devil's not going "Ha, ha, ha, ha."
Fall back again, fall back again...
Fall back again, fall back again...
Fall back again, fall back again...
Fall back again, ashes to ashes, dust to dust,
Fall back again.
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Padded with power here they come
International loan sharks backed by the guns
Of market hungry military profiteers
Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
With the blood of the poor
Who rob life of its quality
Who render rage a necessity
By turning countries into labour camps
Modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom
Sinister cynical instrument
Who makes the gun into a sacrament --
The only response to the deification
Of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'
Idolatry of ideology
North South East West
Kill the best and buy the rest
It's just spend a buck to make a buck
You don't really give a flying fuck
About the people in misery
IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt
See the paid-off local bottom feeders
Passing themselves off as leaders
Kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows
Open for business like a cheap bordello
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
See the loaded eyes of the children too
Trying to make the best of it the way kids do
One day you're going to rise from your habitual feast
To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast
They call the revolution
IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt