I wanna be too big to fail
I wanna steal and not go to jail
I lost in Vegas—won’t somebody bail me out
If I could lie like those guys in New York
or had a buddy in Congress who’d send me some pork
I’d be in a skybox popping a cork right now
The U.S. Treasury should pay for my dope
and some hookers to join me out on the slope
I lost my job and there’s not much hope, evidently
but if Daddy coulda sprung for an M.B.A.
I’d be pulling down a quarter million a day
I’d crush anybody who got in the way of my Bentley
Too big to fail
Connections at Yale
You get the bill when my luck goes stale
Too big to fail
Government sale
How do I get to be too big to fail?
I want a fight where I can’t get hurt
Somebody else gets covered with dirt
while I never scuff the french cuffs on my shirt or my hankie
I want a handout like the rich guys get
I want a chef and a corporate jet
and a house in the Hamptons if it doesn’t upset Ben Bernanke
Too big to fail
Connections at Yale
You get the bill when my luck goes stale
Too big to fail
Government sale
How do I get to be too big to fail?
Too big to fail
Like a killer whale
the more I sink the more I prevail
Too big to fail
Dominant male
How do I get to be too big to fail?
It’s okay if the president’s black
I just want my country back
It’s okay if the president’s white
I just want someone who’ll defend my rights
It’s okay if the president’s female
Just give me somebody who isn’t senile
It’s okay if the president’s a Muslim
Better than some hack senator’s cousin
Forget about identity
and give me back my liberty
We’re all part of humanity
Don’t give in to insanity
It’s okay if the president’s gay
as long as he does what the people say
It’s okay if the president’s an atheist
as long as she acts in the national interest
It’s okay if the president’s a pagan
Better than some preacher who thinks he’s Reagan
It’s okay if the president’s a nerd
if he takes the Constitution at its word
Forget about identity
and give me back my liberty
We’re all part of humanity
Don’t give in to insanity
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