Jesse Welles – Philanthropist Duet (Guitar)

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When I was just a boy, my mother asked me this

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"What you wanna be when you grow up?"

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I said, "A big philanthropist"

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With data as my oil and illness as my business

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With guns as my retirement and war as my mistress

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I'm gonna be an oligarch with a whole bunch of rockets

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I'd keep them two sides fighting, and I'd empty both of their pockets

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And if I got bored or money weary

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I'd try my hand in dabbling and social engineering

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And I'm gonna be a billionaire with a big foundation

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We used to rule in shadows, but I'd come right out and I'd rule the nation

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I'm gonna do all my own laundry in a third-world nation state

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Experiment with the locals like some philanthropic saint

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And I'd never make a cure, no, I'd get ya a treatment plan

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You can die in slow installments, and I'll bleed you while I can

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And I'll travel around the planet in a big ol' mystery jet

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What I did would be my business, and what you did, I would collect

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If I were a philanthropist just running around

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Philanthropistin', not a whole lot of help, just for myself

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But I gotta make it look convincing, oh!