This is a track about excessive greed and the need to keep acquiring wealth, power and control. The second verse refers to the global financial crashes...Lyrics below

A brand new day breaks the darkness
But it’s still the same old sun
We all go round and round again
Until we’re back where we’ve begun

The best day of their life for some and for others its a curse
Another day to get through for them it can’t get any worse
Oh it gets worse, you better call for the nurse
Blame the universe, its all so perverse

We all drink from the well of life some fill their caddies to the brim
One day that well is gonna run dry and no-ones gonna win
They take every single drop they can for the life in which they’re immersed
They drink from the well and they never stop but they still can’t quench their thirst

Their lips are pursed, they always have to be first
Then they drink till they burst, a never ending thirst

There’s nothing fair about it we can’t choose to who we’re born
A world stuffed full of roses another filled with thorns
As years go by we watch friends fail and we wonder what does it mean
Do they water down the milk of life so they can have more cream

They take the cream it’s so bloody obscene
They plot and they scheme so they can live their dream

Yeah we all drink from the well of life some fill their caddies to the brim
One day that well is gonna run dry and no-ones gonna win
They take every single drop they can for the life in which they’re immersed
They drink from the well and they never stop but they still can’t quench their thirst

Their lips are pursed, they always have to be first
Then they drink till they burst, a never ending thirst

But it just don’t work it just don’t work
Their never ending thirst only makes things worse
It only makes things worse, that never ending thirst

Black Magic Woman

Fleetwood Mac

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