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,
 god dammit!
 My life has value!...

 This is your new world order
The year of ten evils
Stack bodies, stack bills, steal the power from the people
This is the orchestra of war
 apocalyptic prequel
 Haliburton stay murkin'
 Skull and Bones keep it legal
 We be underground
Firing [bad word] rounds back lethal
 Put the vinyl to the needle
 let them hear them desert eagles
 'cause the suckers have been hypnotized
 Don't see the news like we do
 Stop the others making mockeries
Of the god, your mind feeble

 If the government wanna go and act a fool
 Then let them know that my hand's gonna pack a tool
 From the slums to the dirt, they get ya all the way

 Republican nor democrat
 Neither one will pay
 'Cos the bank owns the government
 We're all some [bad word]  slaves

 This [bad word] is wild and urgent
 You smell that fire burning
 Nothing to be concered with
 The era of diversion
Fox news and double-u are [bad word] Halliburton
 Nothing to be concered with
 The era of diversion
FEMA, [bad word]  Katrina,
 Yeah, that's for certain,
 Nothing to be concered with
 The era of diversion
 These ol' merces
 They are working with the man behind the curtain
 You should be concerced with
 The era of diversion