M A D (Intro) Lyrics

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

The dollar buys a nickel's worth

Banks are going bust

Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter

Punks are running wild in the street and 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

And 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 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 are 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 gonna leave you alone

I want you to get mad

You've got to get MAD

You've got to say

I'm a HUMAN BEING

God damn it, my life has VALUE