Don't let the bastards get you down
Don't sell your heart to no businessman
And sell it back next time around
Don't let the bastards get you down
There's a new town coming my way
On this never-ending highway
I miss my baby's birthday
Feeling sorry in the worst way
It seems I'm always losing
For another life of choosing They make you grow up distant
Spilling booze in your own existence
Don't let the bastards get you down Don't
let them sell your heart and steal your
blood Make sure there's no next time around
Don't let the bastards get you down
From Aberdeen to Austin St. Augustine to Boston
We ain't about to give in To those who just can't live it
They want to wear your rhinestones Then they ain't got your backbone
They've been told they're sons of
bitches They don't know your extra riches
Don't let the bastards get you down
Don't let them beat you up and bruise your
pride Don't give yourself to common class
Don't let the bastards get you down
When
a dream becomes a nightmare You wake up bound for nowhere
To port-a-pétit,
to foreign feudal men,
to its looking down the noses
Thinking bullshit smells like roses All the cocaine in
existence Couldn't keep your nose out of my business
Don't let the bastards get you down
Don't sell your heart to no businessmen
You'll sell it back next time around
Don't let the bastards get you down
Keep
all the haters on your ground Don't let the bastards get you down