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 *** 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