| I don’t have to tell you things are bad
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| Everybody knows things are bad
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| The dollar buys a nickel’s worth
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| Banks are going bust
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| Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter
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| Punks are running wild in the street
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| And there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do
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| And there’s no end to it
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| We know the air is unfit to breathe
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| And our food is unfit to eat
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| We sit watching our TVs
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| While some local newscaster tells us
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| That today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes
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| As if that’s the way it’s supposed to be
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| We all know things are bad
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| Worse than bad
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| They’re crazy
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| It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy
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| So we don’t go out any more
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| We sit in the house and slowly the world we’re living in is getting smaller
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| And all we say is, «Please at least leave us alone in our living rooms
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| Let me have my toaster and my TV
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| And my steel-belted radials
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| And I won’t say anything
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| Just leave us alone»
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| Well, I’m not going to leave you alone
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| I want you to get mad
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| I don’t want you to protest
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| I don’t want you to riot
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| I don’t want you to write to your congress member because I wouldn’t know what
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| to tell you to write
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| All I know is that first
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| You’ve got to get mad
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| You’ve gotta say, «I'm a human being God dammit
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| My life has value!»
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| This is your new world order
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| The intent evil
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| Stack bodies stack bills
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| Steal power from the people
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| It’s the orchestra of war
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| Apocalyptic prequel
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| Halliburton stay murkin'
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| Skull and bones keep it legal
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| We be underground
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| Fire fucking rounds back lethal
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| Put the vinyl to the needle
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| Let them hear them desert eagles
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| 'Cause these suckers have been hypnotized
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| Don’t see the news like we do
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| Story of us making mockeries of God
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| Their minds feeble
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| If the government wanna go and act a fool
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| Then let 'em know that my hand gonna pack a tool
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| From the slums and the dirty air
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| All the way to the two one fade murder capital
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| Republican or democrat
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| Neither one will pay
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| 'Cause the bank owns the government
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| We’re all some fuckin' slaves
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| This shit is wild and urgent
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| You smell that fire burning
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| Nothing to be concerned with
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| The era of diversion
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| Fox News and W
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| Are fuckin' Halliburton
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| Nothing to be concerned with
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| The era of diversion
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| FEMA, fuck Katrina
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| Yeah, that’s for certain
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| Nothing to be concerned with
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| The era of diversion
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| These old merchants
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| They are working with the man behind the curtain
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| You should be concerned with
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| The era of diversion |