They Want It All
words and music by David Crosby

JUNE 2003

chorus.....
they want it all
the want it now
they want to get it
and they don’t care how

want that Mercedes
want that Gulfstream too
they want to get it
get it from you

want your life savings
and your mothers ring
they want to have
everything

chorus

they want a mansion
and they want it full
of wine and women
and political pull

they always own a
congressman or two
that’s how they get way
with what they do

chorus

they bleed the companies
they’re supposed to run
aint no different than takin’
money with a gun






they make it to jamaica
and the wire comes through
they sacrifice a lawyer
and they’re laughing at you

chorus

they don’t get prosecuted
don’t even get charged
they’re somewhere in the sunbelt
livin’ it large

the government says we can’t prove
they did it at all
besides they’ve got these underlings
ready to take the fall

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those people that they stole from
who’s lives they laid to waste
they should have to meet them all
face to face

and explain how come their mama
didn’t teach them not to steal
if you want us to believe in justice
justice better be real