Loudon Wainwright A Hard Day On The Planet Lyrics

A Hard Day On The Planet Lyrics

The dollar went down and the President said
“Who’s in charge, now?� I
don’t know, take your pick.
A new disease every day and the old ones are
coming back
Things are looking kind of gray, like they’re going to
black

Don’t turn on the TV, don’t show me the paper
(I) don’t want to
know he got kidnapped or why they all raped her
I want to go on vacation
‘till the pressure lets up
But they keep hijacking airplanes and blowing them
up

(Refrain)
It’s been a hard day on the planet
How much is it all
worth?
It’s getting harder to understand it
Things are tough all over on
earth.

It’s hot in December and cold in July
When it rains it pours out of a
poisonous sky
In California the body counts keep getting higher
It’s evil out
there, man that state is always on fire.

Everyone has a system, but they
can’t seem to win
Even Bob Geldorf looks alarmingly thin
I got to get on that
shuttle get me out of this place
But there’s gonna be warfare up there in
outer space
(Refrain)
I’ve got clothes on my back and shoes on my feet
A roof
over my head and something to eat
My kids are all healthy and my folks are
alive
You know, it’s amazing but sometimes I think I’ll survive

I’ve got
all of my fingers and all of my toes
I’m pretty well off I guess, I suppose
So
how come I feel bad so much of the time?
A man ain’t an island—John Dunn
wasn’t lying
(Refrain)
It’s business as usual; some things never
change
It’s unfair, it’s tough, unkind and it’s strange
We don’t seem
to learn; we can’t seem to stop
Maybe some explosions would close up the
shop

You know, maybe that would be fine: we would be off the hook
We resolved
all our problems, never mind what it took
And it all would be over, finito, the
end
Until the survivers started up all over again
(Refrain)