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♫He's a Real Go-Getter♫
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♫He's a Real Go-Getter♫

They wouldn't let me write a song about Bill Gates. Strange when they let me write about that horrible country in The Middle East. So... this is a consolation song, but... not for me.

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Tell me, do you know what a hedge funder does?

It’s not about what might be. It’s all about what was

It’s worse than making sausages or practicing the law

There aren’t any presents, and there is no Santa Claus

It takes a special evil creep to do this kinda work

If he had any class... he could almost be a jerk.

He makes a psychopath look like Alfred E Neuman

There isn’t any way that you could call them human

He’s a real go-getter, but he ain’t gotter yet

He never stops the action. It’s all about the debt

They auction off the debt at the temple fire sale

and if this world were fair, they’d all be in jail

Yeah, he’s a real go-getter in a college sweater

He’s dressing for disasters. He can’t do any better

Going to a funeral, he’s going to keep it cheerful

As the priest is talking, the client gets an earful

He ran over someone’s mother going to the bar

He kept right on going. It was someone else’s car

A hooker that he frequents was his alibi that night

If you’re gonna be The Devil, then you’d better do it right

He’s a real go-getter, but he ain’t gotter yet

He never stops the action. It’s all about the debt

They auction off the debt at the temple fire sale

and if this world were fair, they’d all be in jail

He’s a real go-getter, but... he ain’t gotter now

He made her eat her feelings. Now she is a cow

Late at night, he calls her to make her heart beat fast

It takes two to tango, that’s why it couldn’t last.

Somehow they meet, the victim and the perp.

Strange financial Karma, both on the same turf.

It’s a common action in the wrong part of town

Getting rich is his reward for bringing people down

He’s a real go-getter, but he ain’t gotter yet

He never stops the action. It’s all about the debt

They auction off the debt at the temple fire sale

and if this world were fair, they’d all be in jail

I’d like to think he gave a shit in the long ago

He was told what really counts is due to who you know

He was screwing over people, soon as he could walk

a true Talmudic Slaver who thinks he’s Jonas Salk

Well, hedge funds are a lot like vaccination fraud

So what if people died while you were playing God?

It doesn’t matter what you did if no one ever knows

If you’re gonna getter, getter done, before she goes

He’s a real go-getter, but he ain’t gotter yet

He never stops the action. It’s all about the debt

They auction off the debt at the temple fire sale

and if this world were fair, they’d all be in jail

There are now more hedge funds

than there are McDonald’s here,

but then... there is so little love

and many magnitudes of fear

Someone, look outside!

Tell me if the coast is clear?

Someone, look outside!

Tell me if the coast is clear?

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