They told me that I couldn’t come back here again   Took me for some kind of fool   Said I was doing things that never should be done   But I don’t care about their rules      As if I cared ‘bout the little minds   In the little heads of the herd   There’s nothing you could dream   Would be more absurd      And everybody knows these are rock hard times   I gotta make it through   These are rock hard times      I don’t know what it is they’re trying to do to me   Make me into some sick joke   But no one’s laughing   And least of all not me   It’s hard to laugh as you choke      Hollywood lies piled up to the sky   Floating your way soon   Hope you like the rotten stench of doom      And everybody knows these are rock hard times   I gotta make it through   These are rock hard times      I don’t know what it is they think I’m gonna try   They don’t know what they need to fear   The surest sign that the end is coming soon   Is right there in the bathroom mirror      Everybody knows these are rock hard times   I gotta make it through   These are rock hard times   These are rock hard times