A Forked Tongue Cuts Like A Knife歌词

作词 : Paddy Chayefsky
I don't have to tell you things are bad.
Everybody knows things are bad.
The dollar buys a nickel's worth.
Banks are going bust.
Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter.
There's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do,
and there's no end to it.
We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat,
and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that
today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes,
as if that's the way it's supposed to be.

We know things are bad — worse than bad.
They're crazy.
It's like everything everywhere is going crazy,
so we don't go out anymore.
We sit in the house,
and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller,
and all we say is:
'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms.
Let me have my toaster, my TV,
my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything.
Just leave us alone.'
Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone.
I want you to get MAD!
I don't want you to protest.
I don't want you to riot —
I don't want you to write to your congressman,
because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write.
I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation
and the Russians and the crime in the street.
All I know is that first you've got to get mad.
You've got to say:
'I'm a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!'

So, I want all of you to get up out of your chairs.
I want you to get up right now and go to the window.
Open it, and stick your head out, and yell:
I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!