Entitlement

By Jack White

On Lazaretto

Released on June 10, 2014

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Every time I'm doin' what I want to

Somebody comes and tells me it's wrong

Whenever I'm doin' just as I please

Somebody cuts me down to my knees

Yeah, somebody cuts me down to my knees

In a time when everybody feels entitled

Why can't I feel entitled too?

Somebody took away my God given right

I guess God must have gave it to you

Yeah, I guess God must have slipped it to you

"Stop what you're doin' and get back in line"

I hear this from people all the time

"If we can't be happy then you can't be too"

I'm tired of bein' told what to do

Yeah, I'm sick of bein' told what to do

There are children today who are lied to

Told the world is rightfully theirs

They can have what they want, whenever they want

They take like Caesar and nobody cares

Live like Caesar and nobody cares

I can't bring myself to take without penance

Or atonement or sweat from my brow

Though the world may be spoiled and gettin' worse every day

Don't they feel like they cheated somehow?

I feel like I've been cheated somehow

"Stop what you're doin' and get back in line"

I hear this from people all the time

"If we can't be happy then you can't be too"

I'm tired of bein' told what to do

Yeah, I'm sick of bein' told what to do

I guess nobody on earth is entitled

Not mothers, not children, not kings

Not a one single person on God's golden shore

Is entitled to one single thing

We don't deserve a single damn thing