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I Don't Understand How the World Works

from I Don't Understand How the World Works by Buggy Jive

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" I, too, am counting on that 4 percent."

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There’s a casino in New York City
Built on a burial ground
A casino in New York City
Where special interests confound
And if you make enough and rake it up and save enough
And if you make enough and rake it up and save enough
The special interest compounds
The interest compounds
And you will never ever run out of money
If you don't take more than 4 percent
The casino will keep on paying you
That special interest

I don't understand how the world works.

I don't get it but I'm gonna get some
I don't get it but I'm gonna get me some
It shouldn't work, but I shouldn't either
Give me some of that passive income
I'm telling you: I've run the numbers
And I got straight As in B-school
It shouldn't work, but I shouldn't either
And I don't need to be here
Anymore

I don't understand how the world works.

I don't trust the inventions of men.

I'm writing this song on a plane
I'm singing it into a phone on a plane
So I'll have it when we land
I don't trust the inventions of man.

I don't get why you so mad, bro
The world works just the way you want it
You got your casino in New York City
It keeps on paying you them pretty pennies
They charge a little interest and fees
The land was bought for a handful of beads
They needed a place to buy and sell humans
They needed a place to buy and sell humans
All just so one day you could live off the interest
I know you're counting on that 4 percent
All just so one day you could live off the interest
I know you're counting on that 4 percent
Some say they named it for the wall they built
After the massacre, as a "defense"
But it’s the massacre that was the offense
And I, too, am counting on that 4 percent

I don't understand how the world works.

I'm afraid of Americans
And I don't trust Lou to tell me what Sister Ray says
I don't trust the inventions of men
I don't trust the conventions of men

I'm singing this into a phone on a plane
The lady next to me thinks I'm insane
But I got a window seat
And she's in the middle

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from I Don't Understand How the World Works, released January 14, 2022

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Buggy Jive Albany, New York

BUGGY JIVE is a soul rock singer-songwriter quietly uploading music from a basement somewhere in Upstate New York.

Equal parts Zeppelin and D’Angelo and Prince and Joni in sound and sensibility, his lyrics often mine the literature of the past to make sense of the present – from Ellison to Morrison to Eliot to Didion.

“Literary Kravitz,” as some say. ... more

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