hard times for you and me.
It's hard times in the public places,
hard times in the factories,
hard times on the corporate farms,
hard times on the company seas.
Hard times, it's hard times.
It's hard to watch it all go down
Drowning like the setting sun
Hard to watch our freedoms taken
Hard to lose what we had won
It's hard to watch the towers tumble
Hard to watch the struggling town
Hard to watch the bastards smile
While they tear the Constitution
But it's hardly time to take a seat,
hardly time to lose your voice,
hardly fair to just complain
as if we never had a choice.
For we are born to work and choose,
we are born to rip and bend,
we are born to win and lose,
we are born to lose and win.
And hard times, it's hard times,
hard times, it's hard times.
