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    "Business As Usual"genre: Folk
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    Since this song was recorded in the eighties South African Apartheid has crumbled As an OFFICIAL "rule of law" However, the term can be applied to a far more insidious, because ingrained for centuries, way of looking at others - in Kosovo, and so many other troubling/bubbling-cauldron zones of conflict...that is why I keep it here Like the song says: The only cure for the will to WAR IS the will to PEACE
    CD: Busker for FREEDOM   Label: Kolo
    Credits: Jesse, guitar and vocals

    Story Behind the Song
    My response to the eighties US conservative resistance to the effort to end apartheid in South Africa...and thoughts on how modern war is an idea...as Ralph Waldo Emerson said over one hundred years ago during the time of the US - Mexican War...war is not "human nature" it is an idea, as such it SHALL be replaced by a better idea...

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    (Chorus)
    Now, it's business as usual back in the board rooms of the banks
    Yes, it's business as usual where engineers design army tanks
    Still, it's business as usual in clubs where men don't let women in
    Surely, it's business as usual has gotten to be worse thean original sin

    Don't let business as usual turn you into a slave
    Don't let business as usual lay you in your grave
    Don't let business as usual support apartheid even one more day
    Don't give business as usual any chance to blow this world away

    We've got too many brothers and sisters in dank, dirty prisons
    For speaking their minds where that's considered a crime
    We've got too many money-takers putting off decisions
    making up excuses that never have any reason or rhyme
    We've got too many puppets telling us those seeking visions
    Of FREEDOM and PEACE are only fools being duped one more time

    It's time those who pull the puppet strings stop playing their heartless game
    Of WE-DON'T-VALUE-NOTHING, 'less it really, really sells
    It's time we stop pointing fingers at one another, casting blame
    Like peas to be found under three shifting shells
    It's time those who rule according to Fortune and FLAME
    Finally had to share this world with everybody else

    (Chorus)
    Still, it's business as usual...

    We're getting really tired of all the crafty evasions
    Employed by the boys who own the Bohemian Grove
    We're getting really tired of all the separate nations
    Treating foreign folks like wood that can be stuffed into a stove
    We're getting really tired of all the fabrications
    Used to tell us how it's all been planned by Jupiter, by JOVE

    And now, we're getting ready to tear down each and every fence
    Used to corral us and market us like cattle
    Yes, now, we're getting ready to give lie to all the pretense
    Used to divide us, deride us, and send us off to battle
    Right now, we're getting ready to dispatch apartheid forever hence
    We won't give up the struggle, until we hear it's death rattle!

    (Chorus)
    Still, it's business as usual...

    Before we spend billions and billions on particle beams
    I Pray We Will Discover we've no right to kill for peace
    Before we rend this earth with mad scientists' schemes
    I Pray We Will Discover indifference is a real disease
    Before we descend into a hopeless hell, completely devoid of dreams
    I Pray We Will Discover
    the only cure for the will to WAR
    the only cure for the will to WAR
    the only cure for the will to WAR
    IS the will to PEACE
    It's the will to PEACE

    The only cure for the will to WAR
    IS the will to PEACE

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