Don Henley - Gimme What You Got Lyrics
Baby picks off your plate-yours looks betterAnd she throws hers on the floorHere, in the home of the braveAnd the land of the freeThe first word that baby learns is moreSo youre out there floating like a big, puffy cloudWith the pool and the charcoalAnd the kids and the wifetil the reruns of your dreams are interruptedAnd you step out into lifeAnd its still gimme, gimme what you gotI said gimme, gimme what you got(I want it, I want it)Gimme, gimme what you gotNow its take and take and takeover, takeoverIts all take and never giveAll these trumped up towersTheyre just golden showersWhere are people supposed to live?You can arm yourself, alarm yourselfBut theres nowhere you can runcause a man with a briefcaseCan still more moneyThan any man with a gunI said gimme, gimme what you gotSaid gimme, gimme what you gotGimme, gimme what you gotGimme, gimme what you gotYou got the price of admissionYou dont have to ask permissionTo take somethin from another manYou cross a lawyer with the godfather, babyMake you an offer that you cant understandFrom main street to wall street to washingtonFrom men to women to menIts a nation of noses pressed up against the glassTheyve seen it on the tvAnd they want it pretty fastYou spend your whole lifeJust pilin it up thereYou got stack and stacks and stacksThen, gabriel comes and taps you on the shoulderBut you dont see no hearses with luggage racksGimme, gimme what you gotI said gimme, gimme what you gotI said gimme, gimme what you got(I want it, I want it)Gimme, gimme what you got
