We Wanna Be Like You

You want it, you get it, you always win
You rewrite, you recast so you don't sin
You grab at the goods and you just grin
You leave us for dead, and think of spin to spin us

But we wanna be like you
Looked up to after a life of paying dues
Wealth accruing, no-one turning screws
No-one stopping ya or cluttering the view

The sky-rise, the mansion, the live-in nurse
The pay-rise, expansion, it's well-rehearsed
Advertise your mentions, every verse
Devise a pension investment that survives beyond your hearse

And we wanna be like you
Looked up to after a life of paying dues
Wealth accruing, no-one turning screws
No-one stopping us or cluttering the view

All that changes now you wanna rule
You might find we stop buying all your bull
You're shoveling but we think that you're too full
of yourself and of your crap, it's time you went to school

You gambled that we liked you (but we do not)
You thought that you could rule us and we'd pay you too (we won't)
Turns out that it's us who turn the screws (oh yeah)
And by stepping forward you're cluttering our view

You buy us, you want us, we want your wealth
You fly past, you bypass, obsessed with self
We're outclassed, but steadfast and in good health
The outcasts will outlast you and all that's on your top shelf

We don't wanna be like you (no we do not)
Looked down upon, while you lie about paying dues (you lie)
Why have wealth accrue? You turned too many screws. (oh yeah)
By stepping forward you went and cluttered up our view