"I don't have to tell you
things are bad,
everybody knows
things are bad. The
dollar buys a nickel's
worth. Banks are going
bust, shopkeepers keep
a gun under the
counter, punks are
running wild on the
streets, and there's
nobody anywhere
seems to know what to
do, there's
no end to it. We know
the air is unfit to
breathe and our food is
unfit to eat. We sit
watching our TV while
some local newscaster
tells us that today we
had 15 homicides, 63
violent crimes, as if
that's the way is
supposed to be. We
know things are bad,
worse than bad!
They're crazy, it's like
everything everywhere
it's going crazy, so we
don't go out anymore.
We sit in the house and
slowly the world we
live in is getting