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 [bad word] wild in the street
But there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do
And 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 TVs
While some local newscaster tells us
That today we had fifteen homicides
And sixty-three violent crimes
As if that's the way it's supposed to be

We all know things are bad
Worse than bad 
They're crazy

It's like everything everywhere is going crazy
So we don't go out any more
We sit in the house
And 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
Just leave us alone"

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

All I know is that first
You've got to get mad
You've gotta say
"I'm a human being, goddammit, my life has value!"

This is your new world order
The intent evil
Stack bodies, stack bills
Steal power from the people

This is the orchestra of war
Apocalyptic prequel
Halliburton stay murking
Skull and Bones, keep it legal
We be underground
Firing f**king rounds back, lethal
Put the vinyl to the needle
let them hear them desert eagles
'Cause these suckers that have been hypnotize
Don't see the news like we do
Stop the others making mockeries of god 
Them mind's feeble

If the government wanna go and act a fool
Then let them know that my head gonna pack a fool
From the slums to the dirt, they get ya all the way
To the [bad word] walked in one afternoon
Republican nor democrat
Neither one will pay 
'Cause the bank owns the government
We all some f**king slaves

This [bad word] is wild and urgent
You smell that fire burning?
Nothing to be concerned with
The era of diversion
Fox news and W are f**king Halliburton
Nothing to be concerned with
The era of diversion
FEMA, [bad word] Katrina
Yeah, that's for certain
Nothing to be concerned with
The era of diversion
These old merchants 
They are working with the man behind the curtain
You should be concerned with
The era of diversion [?x]