Tiresome Times Lyrics

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?

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

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?