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