"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... Lyrics (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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