I always dread to
Open the news each day
But I still won't turn away
Repeating problems
Yet every yesterday
Followed by little progress made
If you exchange your heart for money
It ain't gonna beat what's right
Tiresome times...
Tiresome times...
Sometimes I step back
Take a different guise
Try to see it with fresh eyes
But the cold truth
Ruins every view
Within moments of sight
If you exchange your time for money
It's gonna spend your life
Tiresome times...
Tiresome times...
Freeze the factories
Break the banks
Shed the fur coats from the rats
Fire the phonies
Trash the tanks
Feel the strain roll off our backs
The few are able to decide
Which of us will make it through the night
Is that right?
To even ask you seems impolite
Insulting even, I think we've had enough
Don't you?
Don't you?
Sometimes I feel trapped
On a frantic ride
Where we are carried by the tide
And we must float
Keep us all alive
Not a moment to realise
If you exchange morals for money
It's gonna cost a life
Tiresome times...
Tiresome times...
Freeze the factories
Break the banks
Shed the fur coats from the rats
Fire the phonies
Trash the tanks
Feel the strain roll off our backs
Freeze the factories
Break the banks
Shed the fur coats from the rats
Fire the phonies
Trash the tanks
Feel the strain roll off our backs
The words of Lennon
Enjoyed but ignored
Did we imagine, do no more?
And Martin Luther
Turned dreams to fairer laws
Yet we would sleep walk to civil war
If you exchange your home for money
It's gonna be your last goodbye
Tiresome times...
Tiresome times...
Great human beings
People like Susan B
Rallied against adversity
And now we've Greta
Wisdom beyond her teens
But will we match her and take heed?
If you exchange the script be honest
We're here to nurture life
There's still time...
There's still time...
Surely we all know the answer already?