Not for Want of Trying-Maybeshewill

[ti:Not for Want of Trying] [ar:Maybeshewill] [al:Not for Want of Trying 4] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Not for Want of Trying - Maybeshewill [01:35.17]Everybody knows things are bad [01:36.96]It's a depression Everybody's out of work [01:40.41]Or scared of losing their job [01:42.09] [01:43.28]The dollar buys a nickel's worth [01:45.22]Banks are going bust Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter [01:48.26] [01:48.87]Punks are running wild in the street and [01:50.71]There's nobody anywhere that seems to know what to do [01:52.22]And there's no end to it We know the air is unfit to breathe [01:57.39]Our food is unfit to eat and we sit watching our TVs [02:00.81]While some local newscaster tells us that today we had 15 homicides [02:04.48]And 63 violent crimes as if that's the way it's supposed to be [02:08.08]We know things are bad Worse than bad They're crazy [02:11.85]It's like everything everywhere is going crazy [02:13.38]So we don't go out anymore [02:15.05]We sit in a house as slowly the world we're living in is [02:17.84]Getting smaller and all we say is [02:19.48]Please at least leave us alone in our living rooms [02:22.25]Let me have my toaster and my TV [02:24.29]And my steel belted radials and I won't say anything [02:26.55] [02:27.84]Well I'm not going to leave you alone I want you to get mad [02:31.40] [03:20.64]I don't want you to protest I don't want you to riot [03:22.48]I don't want you to write to your congressman [03:23.82]Because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write [03:25.49]I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation [03:28.42]And the Russians and the crimes in the streets [03:30.40]All I know is first you've got to get mad You've got to say [03:34.05]I'm a human being God Dammit My life has value [03:37.91] [03:40.51]So I want you to get up now [03:43.09] [03:44.01]I want all of you to get up out of your chairs [03:46.18] [03:47.45]I want you to get up right now and go to the window [03:50.81]Open it and stick your head out and yell [03:53.59] [03:54.17]I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore