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I can see your greedy eyes…

You could be the president, I really don’t care
If all you ever want to do is never share
Smash, grab, make a stash, greedy-guts man
You’re climbing up the ladder, quick while you can
See the little fellow with hunger in his eyes
All his life he’s never never had a pleasant surprise
Running down the road after yellow butterflies
His arms open wide to the jigsaw skies

You could have a kingdom with the little that you have
But you drink the wine of wealth too deep
Line your plastic pockets with somebody else’s blood
Watch out little man, you could get a knife in your heart in your sleep

I can see your greedy eyes
Behind your silly Ray-Bans
Don’t take too much of what is mine
I don’t play the fool all the time
There’s many ways to skin a cat
A wise man was heard to say
Humpty Dumpty will fall down
Tomorrow if not today

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Will walk by your grave and pray
That they would never be the fools they were
To put you together again
So move while you can, you fatted fool
Or get some spiritual healing
Throw a million bucks on a saffron saint
But can he stop you stealing…

You could have a kingdom with the little that you have
But you drink the wine of wealth too deep
Line your plastic pockets with somebody else’s blood
Watch out little man, you could get a knife in your heart in your sleep

I can see your greedy eyes
Behind your silly Ray-Bans
Don’t take too much of what is mine
I don’t play the fool all the time
There’s many ways to skin a cat
A wise man was heard to say
Humpty Dumpty will fall down
Tomorrow if not today

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from Thermal And A Quarter Dotcom, released May 15, 2000

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Thermal And A Quarter Bengaluru, India

"Thermal And A Quarter (TAAQ) is on the vanguard of the Indian Rock Scene" - NPR, USA

Founded in 1996, TAAQ is an eclectic, irreverent (but usually relevant) band that considers itself and its music as bastard children of the world. At home everywhere, belonging nowhere. Always true, tight, intense and ready to laugh. ... more

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