The dollar went down and the President said  “Who’s in charge, now?” I don’t know, take your pick.  A new disease every day and the old ones are coming back  Things are looking kind of gray, like they’re going to black    Don’t turn on the TV, don’t show me the paper  (I) don’t want to know he got kidnapped or why they all raped her  I want to go on vacation ‘till the pressure lets up  But they keep hijacking airplanes and blowing them up    (Refrain)  It’s been a hard day on the planet  How much is it all worth?  It’s getting harder to understand it  Things are tough all over on earth.    It’s hot in December and cold in July  When it rains it pours out of a poisonous sky  In California the body counts keep getting higher  It’s evil out there, man that state is always on fire.    Everyone has a system, but they can’t seem to win  Even Bob Geldorf looks alarmingly thin  I got to get on that shuttle get me out of this place  But there’s gonna be warfare up there in outer space  (Refrain)  I’ve got clothes on my back and shoes on my feet  A roof over my head and something to eat  My kids are all healthy and my folks are alive  You know, it’s amazing but sometimes I think I’ll survive    I’ve got all of my fingers and all of my toes  I’m pretty well off I guess, I suppose  So how come I feel bad so much of the time?  A man ain’t an island—John Dunn wasn’t lying  (Refrain)  It’s business as usual; some things never change  It’s unfair, it’s tough, unkind and it’s strange  We don’t seem to learn; we can’t seem to stop  Maybe some explosions would close up the shop    You know, maybe that would be fine: we would be off the hook  We resolved all our problems, never mind what it took  And it all would be over, finito, the end  Until the survivers started up all over again  (Refrain)