Businessman

Album: Novum, 2017

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Taking Notes and Stealing Quotes on this song

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He’s been working for the company

Slowly creeping up the rungs

The more that he improves his sly moves

The more the customers get stung
  He’s been running all these long years

He does not try to get folk hurt

The stuff they lose has to be used

He gets them deeper in the dirt

     That business man (... business man)

Sundays he still goes to church

I think that just makes things worse

But he’s got to carry on his search

For the comfort of his soul

Sometimes he just sits there praying

For all the bad to go away

Longing for that glory day

When futures turn to gold

     If you’re a business man

     You’ve got to be real

     If you’re a business man

     There’s no time to feel

     If you’re a business man

     Everything’s a deal

     Although you know

     It says you shouldn’t steal

He’s been financing such dark things

Despite he is family man

Magic beans and toxic genes

You’ve got to grab it while you can

Talk to him about investments

Ask him about returns

Question him about protection

You’re still gonna get burned

     By that business man

     You’ve got to be real

     If you’re a business man

     There’s no time to feel

     If you’re a business man

     Everything’s a deal

     If you’re a business man

     Don't ever reveal

     If you’re a business man

     You’ve got to make ’em squeal

     If you’re a business man

     Well you’ve got to be real

     Although, although you know

     It says you shouldn’t steal

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