Inside Job Lyrics - Singles - Don Henley

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 you were dreaming 

This little island disappears 

While you are looking the other way 

They'll take your right to own your own ideas 

And it's 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 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 

And they'll keep doin' it and doin' it 

Doin' it, doin' it, doin' it 

Doin' it, doin' it, doin' it 

Until we all wake up 

Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up 

I know what I've done wrong 

I am acquainted with the night 

I know how hard it is 

To always walk out in the light 

And it's an inside job 

To learn about forgiving 

It's an inside job 

To hang on to the joy of living 

They know the road by which you came 

They know your mother's maiden name 

And what you had for breakfast 

What you've hidden in the mattress 

Insect politics 

Indifferent universe 

Bang your head against the wall 

But apathy is worse 

It's an inside job 

It's an inside job 

It's an inside job 

Yeah, yeah 

It's an inside job 

It's an inside job 

It's an inside job 

It's an inside job 

It's an inside job