Story Behind The Song
The lyrics came mostly from Larry Lind and his view after 9-11. We both saw the need to sound the alarm and get folks to get up and get angry with our government.
Song Description
We have to wake up and start to change things before we lose it all
| Song Length |
3:30 |
Genre |
Folk - Rock, Rock - Modern |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Troubled, Outraged |
Subject |
Protest, Anti |
| Similar Artists |
Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
THE WHOLE THINGS GOING DOWN
They stand behind the TV set and woo you with their tricks
And turn your mind to slop so the sponsors get their kicks
You have no choice you have no voice over anything you see
From neon signs to bare behinds it?s programmed to a ?T?
The old hermit screams ?There?s no use No answers can be found
And the Arabs laugh and eat fatted calf ? While the whole thing?s going down!
Chorus I The Altar boy, with tears of joy, is yelling at the crowd
I?ve been afraid of speaking to you the dead and sleeping
Open up your eyes and realize we?re standing on a mound
Oh can?t you see just where we?ll be
When the whole thing?s going down!
A President, who leads all men, He lied across the land
On TV sets he destroyed the truth as if he had it planned
Though he was cruel he was no fool ?like others that he knew
They?re still out there in that great somewhere, screwing me and you
If you dig crime you?ve got some time just to look around
Open up your eyes, heed the cries the whole thing?s going down
Chorus II The old rabbi with one good eye, he knew the devil?s name
He spoke to them, all the women and men, no converts did he claim
So now he screams each night through dreams
His very words resound; we got lots to face, there is no trace,
The whole thing?s going down
Chorus II The old rabbi with one good eye, he knew the devil?s name
He spoke to them, all the women and men, no converts did he claim
So now he screams each night through dreams
His very words resound; we got lots to face, there is no trace,
The whole thing?s going down
And Oppenheimer who built the bomb
Said nothing nuclear is sound
Just one mistake is all it would take
And the whole thing?s going down
And the whole things going the whole things going down
And the whole thing is going down
Yeah the whole thing is all going down
Yeah the whole thing is going is going down
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