Monologue
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I don't have to tell you things are bad
Everybody knows things are bad
It's a depression
Everybody's out of work
Or scared of losing their job
Dollar by dollar, a nickel's worth
Banks are going bust
Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter
Punks are running wild in the street
There's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do
And there's no end to it
Our 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 15 homicides
And 63 violent crimes
As if that's the way it's supposed to be
We know things are bad, worse than bad
They're crazy, it's like everything everywhere is going crazy
So we don't go out anymore
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 room
Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel built-in radio
So I won't say anything
Just leave us alone"
But I'm not gonna leave you alone
I want you to get mad
I want you to get up now
I want all of you to get up out of your chairs
I want you to get up right now
And go to the window, open it
And stick your head out and yell
"I'm as mad as hell
And I'm not gonna take this anymore"
I want you to get up right now
And go to the window, open it
And stick your head out and yell
"I'm as mad as hell
And I'm not gonna take this anymore"
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
I don't know what to do about the depression
And the inflation and the Russians and the (censored) in the streets
All I know is that first, you've got to get mad
You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, God damn it
My life has value"
I want you to get up right now
And go to the window, open it
And stick your head out and yell
"I'm as mad as hell
And I'm not gonna take this anymore"