Don Henley - Gimme What You Got

Baby picks off your plate-yours looks better
And she throws hers on the floor
Here, in the home of the brave
And the land of the free
The first word that baby learns is `more`
So you`re out there floating like a big, puffy cloud
With the pool and the charcoal
and the kids and the wife
`Til the reruns of your dreams are interrupted
And you step out into life

And it`s still gimme, gimme what you got
I said gimme, gimme what you got
(I want it, I want it)
Gimme, gimme what you got
Now it`s take and take and takeover, takeover
It`s all take and never give
All these trumped up towers
They`re just golden showers
Where are people supposed to live?
You can arm yourself, alarm yourself
But there`s nowhere you can run
`Cause a man with a briefcase
can still more money
Than any man with a gun
I said gimme, gimme what you got
Said gimme, gimme what you got
Gimme, gimme what you got
Gimme, gimme what you got
You got the price of admission
You don`t have to ask permission
To take somethin` from another man
You cross a lawyer with the godfather, baby
Make you an offer that you can`t understand
From Main Street to Wall Street to Washington
From men to women to men
It`s a nation of noses pressed up against the glass
They`ve seen it on the TV
And they want it pretty fast
You spend your whole life
Just pilin` it up there
You got stack and stacks and stacks
Then, Gabriel comes and taps you on the shoulder
But you don`t see no hearses with luggage racks
Gimme, gimme what you got
I said gimme, gimme what you got
I said gimme, gimme what you got
(I want it, I want it)
Gimme, gimme what you got