Gimme What You Got Lyrics - Don Henley

Baby picks off your plate, yours looks better 

And she throws hers on the floor 

Here in the home of the brave 

And the land of the free 

The first word that baby learns is more 

So you're out there floating like a big, fussy cloud 

With the pool and the charcoal 

And the kids and the wife 

'Til the reruns of your dreams are interrupted 

And you step out into life 

And it's still gimme, gimme what you got 

Gimme, gimme what you got 

I said, "Gimme, gimme what you got" 

(I want it, I want it) 

Gimme, gimme what you got 

Now it's take and take and takeover, takeover 

It's all take and never give 

All these trumped up towers 

They're just golden showers 

Where are people supposed to live? 

You can arm yourself, alarm yourself 

But there's nowhere you can run 

'Cause a man with a briefcase 

Can steal more money 

Than any man with a gun 

I said, "Gimme, gimme what you got" 

Said, "Gimme, gimme what you got" 

I said, "Gimme, gimme what you got" 

Gimme, gimme what you got 

You got the price of admission 

You don't have to ask permission 

To take somethin' from another man 

You cross a lawyer with the godfather, baby 

Make you an offer that you can't understand 

From Main Street to Wall Street to Washington 

From men to women to men 

It's a nation of noses pressed up against the glass 

They've seen it on the TV 

And they want it pretty fast 

You spend your whole life just pilin' it up there 

You got stacks and stacks and stacks 

Then, Gabriel comes and taps you on the shoulder 

But you don't see no hearses with luggage racks 

Gimme, gimme what you got 

I said, "Gimme, gimme what you got" 

I said, "Gimme, gimme what you got" 

(I want it, I want it) 

Gimme, gimme what you got 

Killing me 

Oh what?