If Not Now, When? - Todd Rundgren

Someone stuck me on the losing side

Everything is someone else’s fault

We’re not good enough for me to care

And the mantra is

«Too much effort, there’s never time»

And your sole solution is a high pitched whine

It’s not red-hot coals, it’s not busted glass

There’s no Mau-Maus after your sweet pink ass

So if not now when, if not now when, if not now when?

If not you, who then?

No one wants to be the first to fail

I won’t play unless you guard my back

And the mantra is

«Change the system, and please arrange it

To change some way that I feel no change»

It’s not flaming necklaces, household spies

There’s no market bombings, no bullets fly

Bosnia, Bosnia

Try spelling «Herzegovina»

Where money talks and bullshit walks

The bullet or the ballet box

Babylon, oh Babylon

We babble on in Babylon

The tv blows, the music sucks

The bullet or the ballot box

We’re not good enough for me to care

And the mantra is

«Leave the gun on the table loaded

The first to grab it’s as good as voted in»