Lyrics
If I could speak to those in power, I’d say
Check your wristwatch, note the hour
‘Cause we’re out here and we’re watching you
Seems like everything you do, you manage to
Screw someone or make somebody angry
Did you learn that back in military school?
Who convinced you that was cool?
Oh, but I don’t mean to stand here and just complain, it’s really not that way
‘Cause you’ve been pretty good for business,
Particularly the protest music business
Which has been moribund in this country for far too long…
But now we’re back, we’re mad, and we’re singing
That’s right, we’re back, we’re mad, and we’re singing
All the words you speak reflect on me and the American people
You’re our representative to the whole human race
So please check your raves and rants
Keep your phone in your pants and your pen in your pocket
Go out there and make us proud and stop all this fooling around
Oh, but I don’t mean to say that it’s all been bad, it’s really not like that
Why, you’ve brought back manufacturing,
Particularly the manufacturing of those Little Pink Hats
Artisanally knitted with sustainable wool
From sheep humanely raised, dyed pink with organic beet juice
The hats not the sheep—
Which are suddenly everywhere all the rage…
Because we’re back, we’re mad, and we’re singing
We’re back, we’re mad, and we’re singing
Do you believe in the power of music to change the world?
Songs like Lennon’s Imagine and Dylan’s Blowin’ in the Wind?
Do you think we could go there again?
Must be a million gals and guys like me armed with voices and ideals
If you push us a bit too far, you’ll get push-back from these guitars…
Oh, but thank you for bringing us together, just not in the way you expected
Now we’re feeling greater and greater and greater and greater all the time…
Because we’re back, we’re mad, and we’re singing
We’re back, we’re mad, and we’re singing
We’re back, we’re mad, and we’re singing