Who Owns This Place? Lyrics - Don Henley

You know there ain't no end to man's desire 

To steal your water, steal your fire 

Snakes in the garden, apples on the tree 

All of this looks easy, none of this is free 

You might get lucky, got the world to win 

Need a little failure to thicken your skin 

Everybody's talkin', they promise you the moon 

It's made of paper and you find out pretty soon 

Who owns this place? 

Who owns this place? 

I'm talkin' to you, now look in my face 

And tell me who owns this place? 

But time passes, things change 

You might get restless, I might get strange 

But everything you do says always 

Who owns this place? 

Monkey see, monkey do 

You're watchin' him and he's watchin' you 

You think he's funny, he think you're funny too 

You'd get in there with him if you only knew 

Who owns this place? 

Who owns this place? 

What makes you think that you're a special case? 

Who owns this place? 

Time passes, things change 

Shut down the city, fence off the range 

Make everything into a fancy place 

Who owns this place? 

Push, pull, push, pull, push, pull 

Push, pull, push, pull, push, pull 

You always take, you never give 

So busy runnin' you've forgotten where you live 

A million miles, a million malls 

Pretty soon you'll be bouncin' off the walls 

Screamin', "Who owns this place? 

Who owns this place?" 

Too much ambition, too little grace 

Who owns this place?"