Keep the Change Lyrics

Keep the change

Some much hiding in that little phrase

Three short words

Summing up this unpleasant world

Keep the change

What is that really saying?

Well it's saying: take what comes

And be grateful for my crumbs

Well I know it wasn't meant as an insult

But it is one just the same

Accepted as the default

Given another name

Well you can pray for different days

You can cut against the grain

But keep on keeping the change

And nothing will

Keep the change

Doesn't that sound a little strange?

Don't want to put too much on it

But it just sounds oxymoronic

Keep the change

Permanently rearrange

I might be thinking this too deep

But maybe its better to change what we keep

And if you're looking to find a reason

How they keep you under the whip

What if it was less to do with what they did

And more what you would not

And you're looking to make a difference

Without straying from the script

But if you do what you always did

You're gonna get what you always got

You can wring your hands and complain

You can cling to what remains

But if we keep on keeping the change

Then nothing will

Keep the change

Embrace the strange

Every welcome gain

Don't ask who's paying

And there's something that you might not want to face

As you pull back the shroud

Every flimsy silver lining

Inhabits a big black cloud

But luckily evil can be repainted

As some kind of catalyst for good

While the gears are lubricated by some other sucker's blood (yeah)

That's when I'd had enough, I had to make my stand

Gave the chief executive my final demand

I said take it or leave it, I don't care which

She said "Ha, now I've got you, you son of a bitch

Because you're speaking my language now, you're part of the con

But there's little time for pleasantries if we want to get on"

So keeping the change

Pleasure and pain

Measure the main

The treasure's in train

Says you're insane

But it's breaking my brain

Again and again and again and again and again and again and again

Wearing market stall knock-offs of the emperor's new clothes

Plus ca change

C'est plus la meme chose