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How Much Do You Pay? - Oliver Hart

How Much Do You Pay?-Oliver Hart.mp3
[00:00.45]How Much Do You Pay (Live) - Oliver Har...
[00:00.45]How Much Do You Pay (Live) - Oliver Hart
[00:48.43]No one really understands the experience that jades logic
[00:52.1]And paves an agnostic place to lay and decay In toxic waste
[00:55.85]So most carry Identity paraphernalia to familiarize with smiles neatly
[00:59.92]Painted on a robotic face
[01:01.53]But not this man he played the bucket with his hands
[01:04.69]And got paid by whatever change people would drop In his can
[01:07.89]Twenty-three years ago he was a lawyer by description
[01:10.79]But I guess all of a sudden he resigned from that position
[01:13.96]But I've never seen the sky quite as clear as his eyes
[01:16.82]As his blistered fingers beat down on the plastic
[01:19.74]And In a twisted sort of way It all makes sense
[01:22.71]While they rush to die he provides the soundtrack so tragic
[01:26.39]He sits on the corner of 7th and 1st
[01:28.89]And I was thirsty for the answer to a question anyone would nurse
[01:32.4]One day I asked he why he gave up his career
[01:35.07]He said I didn't I just took off the name tag then he added
[01:38.71]Make money and die that's the American way
[01:41.240005]It don't matter what name you gave the bucket that you play
[01:44.53]Make money and die that's the American way
[01:47.32]It don't matter what name you gave the bucket that you play
[01:50.490005]So I took In what was said but I didn't accept It
[01:53.58]Well maybe I did I mean I just wouldn't admit It
[01:56.630005]I was too committed to the belief that all the hard work from now would
[02:00.64]Improve my future existence somehow
[02:02.86]So I said you don't accomplish nothing sitting In the street
[02:05.73]And I'm sure you barely survive off the pennies you gather
[02:08.68]He said to your surprise I make enough to eat
[02:11.58]And I accomplish just as much as you only I stop pretending my job matters
[02:15.52]He looked me In my face and told me I was a puppet
[02:18.27]And what I do Is no more Important than playing a bucket
[02:21.12]I still hear his voice when I set my alarm before bed
[02:24.04001]I never could wash what he said out of my head
[02:26.5]So f**k It It goes
[02:27.76]Make money and die that's the American way
[02:30.52]Make money and die that's the American way
[02:33.19]Make money and die that's the American way
[02:36.35]It don't matter what name you gave the bucket that you play
[02:39.77]Make money and die that's the American way
[02:42.8]Make money and die that's the American way
[02:45.84]Make money and die that's the American way
[02:48.66]It don't matter what name you gave the bucket that you play
[02:51.91]See I can dress myself up In a white coat and say I'm a doctor
[02:55.20999]Carry a knob on my belt buckle with a gold badge
[02:57.13]And say I'm a copper
[02:58.07]Maybe I'm just a sloppy lazy crazy carbon copy part of the heartlessly
[03:01.4]Deranged nation that gave me the generation ecstasy under water I forgot
[03:05.57]The survivor of the mind washed and slaughtered
[03:07.6]I've watched your offers caught your calls and
[03:09.5]Called your forefathers my bosses lost It all In the name of gaining enough
[03:13.27]To spend consuming the youth since those pray In doom for the hand
[03:16.6]My friends see
[03:17.5]When I saw my man playing away on his drum
[03:19.53]Something clicked In my brain and I became less dumb
[03:22.47]I'm working for bread crumbs
[03:24.36]Pretending there's a meaning
[03:25.57]But my employment Is just a bucket I'm desperately beating
[03:28.93]And one day I'll be old and retired
[03:32.08]Looking at my life like what a waste of good fire
[03:35.02]All because school never taught me how to be Inspired
[03:37.93]And the job concerned applying to myself just wouldn't hire
[03:41.16]Make money and die that's the American way
[03:44.16]Make money and die that's the American way
[03:47.20999]Make money and die that's the American way
[03:50.08]It don't matter what name you gave the bucket that you play
[03:53.45999]Make money and die that's the American way
[03:56.36]Make money and die that's the American way
[03:59.51]Make money and die that's the American way
[04:02.34]But hey here's my application how much do y'all pay
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