Take What You Want

John Norris with Arlenderre at 2014 International Peace Festival

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John Norris

John has always been an outsider and a rebel and is definitely not a product of the sterile corporate music industry. His music and ideas will never go out of fashion. He's an outlaw and he's a legend. Although he sometimes disappears off the radar for extended periods, he has been touring and performing for over thirty years and has a huge and loyal following who pack out his venues all over the world.

Take What You Want

If you wait, you’ll be waiting forever

You’ll be working your fingers to the bone

You may as well go down to the river

And fall in and sink like a stone

You can either be hungry and feeble

And feed off the crumbs on the ground

Or grab what you can from the table

Where there’s more than enough to go round

Take what you want

They’ve got more than they need

Don’t accept that there’s nothing for you

Take what you want

Get it now

Take what you want

If you wait then you’ll just give up trying

And they’ll have you work till you drop

And all of their cheating

And dealing and lying

And stealing is not gonna stop

You can live in the filth and the squalor

And beg for the scraps that they throw

Or take hold of them by the collar

And force them to pay what they owe

Take what you want

They’ve got more than they need

Don’t accept that there’s nothing for you

Take what you want

Get it now

Take what you want

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