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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
Theyll take your right to own your own ideas
And its 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 youre so smart
But you dont have a fucking clue
What those men up in the towers
Are doing to me and you
And theyll 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 Ive done wrong
I am acquainted with the night
I know how hard it is
To always walk out in the light
And its an inside job
To learn about forgiving
Its an inside job
To hang on to the joy of living
They know the road by which you came
They know your mothers maiden name
And what you had for breakfast
And what youve hidden in the mattress
Insect politics
Indifferent universe
Bang your head against the wall
But apathy is worse
Its an inside job
Its an inside job
Its an inside job
Yeh, yeah
Its an inside job
Its an inside job
Its an inside job
Its an inside job
Its an inside job
Its an inside job
They came and took it all away
The lanes and the meadows
The places where you used to play
By the well-connected
Your little protest
Summarily rejected
Like it always is
Chalk it up to business as usual
This little island disappears
While you are looking the other way
Theyll take your right to own your own ideas
Favors collected
Your trusted servants
Have left you unprotected
Like it always is
Just chalk it up
To business as usual
But you dont have a fucking clue
What those men up in the towers
Are doing to me and you
And theyll 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 am acquainted with the night
I know how hard it is
To always walk out in the light
To learn about forgiving
Its an inside job
To hang on to the joy of living
They know your mothers maiden name
And what you had for breakfast
And what youve hidden in the mattress
Indifferent universe
Bang your head against the wall
But apathy is worse
Its an inside job
Its an inside job
Yeh, yeah
Its an inside job
Its an inside job
Its an inside job
Its an inside job
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911... Duh
Wake up please.
Uh, no. The song was released in May 2000, more than a full year before 9/11. It's not about that, and anyone who thinks 9/11 was an inside job is a fucking moron
Uh, no. The song was released in May 2000, more than a full year before 9/11. It's not about that, and anyone who thinks 9/11 was an inside job is a fucking moron
Absolutely right, t325. 9/11 conspiracy theorists are fucking retarded.
Absolutely right, t325. 9/11 conspiracy theorists are fucking retarded.
not just 9-11 being an inside job..like it always is...but also illumanatti control over everything...and the orwellien world in which we presently live
First 2 stanza's are about the sale of public/municipal lands to corporations to build commercial properties without caring about the local residents.
ie, Walmart coming into a community, 'buying' the land, that's a park and popping up a store because the powers that be think they know best what benefits a community and ignoring local protests against it..
Stanza's 3 and 4 are about individuals rights versus a corporations rights when it comes to intellectual property. If you are working for a company and come up with an idea and try to patent it, nearly all corporations have legal rights to the idea first, unless they reject it and allow you to pursue it.
Let us not forget Steve Wozniak inventing the PC while working for, I believe, it was xerox or another company. He had to get their approval before trying to sell them. If you have a patent and try to sell the idea or rights to produce it to a company and it's rejected, they can turn around, reverse engineer it, change enough to file their own patent and put you out of business.
Your trusted servants are the members of the government at any level, who are supposed to serve you, but have done nothing to limit the scope of control corporations have with industrial espionage and the lobbyists in Washington.
5 and 6 are pretty self-explanatory.. You can try to pay attention but the back-room deals made between corporations and washington and politician's in general, we are oblivious to. They keep doing it and doing it.
The last several are that big brother, is in fact watching you. That you are the working poor and that it's hard but you have to do what you have to do. If you're apathetic about things that are happening (between your politicians and corporations and allow it to continue) you will be much worse off down the road.
"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"
You've got the wrong towers Beth.. He is talking about the men, standing in the ivory towers, looking down on all the lowly people..
Not the WTC Towers..