Not for Want of Trying - Maybeshewill
Everybody knows things are bad
It's a depression Everybody's out of work
Or scared of losing their job
The dollar buys a nickel's worth
Banks are going bust Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter
Punks are running wild in the street and
There's nobody anywhere that seems to know what to do
And there's no end to it We know the air is unfit to breathe
Our food is unfit to eat and we sit watching our TVs
While some local newscaster tells us that today we had 15 homicides
And 63 violent crimes as if that's the way it's supposed to be
We know things are bad Worse than bad They're crazy
It's like everything everywhere is going crazy
So we don't go out anymore
We sit in a house as slowly the world we're living in is
Getting smaller and all we say is
Please at least leave us alone in our living rooms
Let me have my toaster and my TV
And my steel belted radials and I won't say anything
Well I'm not going to leave you alone I want you to get mad
I don't want you to protest I don't want you to riot
I don't want you to write to your congressman
Because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write
I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation
And the Russians and the crimes in the streets
All I know is first you've got to get mad You've got to say
I'm a human being God Dammit My life has value
So I want you to get up now
I want all of you to get up out of your chairs
I want you to get up right now and go to the window
Open it and stick your head out and yell
I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore