Fear Itself

Everybody's scared, everybody's nervous
Everybody's feeling uptight
Nobody knows when the hammer's coming down
Might be today, tomorrow or tonight
Everybody's talking about 1929
80 Long years ago
In the seventies we waited for some gas on a line, man
That seems like next to nothing now, you know
Piece of cake
I bought myself a house over in the valley
Thought I had a money-making machine
Can't sell the place now I'm in a dark alley
Living the American dream
You know that job I always said that I hated
Well, yesterday they gave me the sack
Loving your work is so damn overrated
I sure wish to God I had the job back
Ow
Check out the illegals standing on the corner
Watching all the cars go by
Lord, they used to look bored, but now they're looking hungry
You can see the desperation in their eyes
I guess you're glad you got yourself that college education
That ought to come in handy one day
I just read about a guy stuck up a filling station
On account of college loans he had to pay
Payback time
Oh, it's pretty bad here, but it's really bad there
In Iceland there's a riot going on
In L.A. they're shutting down the DMV on Friday
Now the weekend feels a little too long
You got depression and recession, inflation and deflation
Lord, it's messing with my heart and soul and brains
I'm sick of stimulation, I need a long vacation
I'll take a long one booked by Maynard Keynes
You know who he is, right?
Well, you should
Grandma used to tell us how she lived through the depression
And the best way out is always right through
But she was being crazy, just a nasty old lady
Stay in bed, that's what I'm gonna do