Because Elvis gave 'em cars
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You think I'm cheap
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And you're hard done by
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Look-you live here like a star
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Rent free suite
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Big blue pool that you sun by
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Trips to tropic shores
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Clothes from fancy stores
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You want too much
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You want too badly
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You want everything for nothing
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Going to the church
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You chant
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For my downfall
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Chanting for my house
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My friends
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You want it all
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The pillows on my bed
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The visions in my head
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You want too much
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You want too badly
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You want everything for nothing
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In the land of litigation
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The courts are like game shows
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Take what's behind the curtain
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The jury cries
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I'm not going to be the jackpot
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At the end of your perjured rainbow
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Not if local justice has even one good eye
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Oh it's not like I was blind
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I saw
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But I took no action
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As you began to climb
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Green clawed
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Dissatisfaction
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It wasn't hard to guess
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That the end would be a mess
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You want too much
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You want too badly
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You want everything for nothing
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In the land of mass frustration
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The judges are sleeping
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Counting wooly little lawyers
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And grinding their teeth
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Outside my sleepless window
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The Hollywood sirens are shrieking
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While down some searchlit alley runs
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Some lost belief
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Oh I'm tangled in your lies
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Your scam
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Your spider web
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Spit spun between the trees
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Doors slam
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You want my head
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You'd eat your young alive
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For a jaguar in the drive
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You lie too much
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You lie too badly
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You want everything for nothing
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The Windfall (Everything For Nothing)
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| Joni Mitchell |
