These Crazy Times

Time's just a passin'

everyone's fine if you ask 'em

like we're pulling a fast one with our smiles

when it gets real bad

just raise your glass

we might as well laugh before we cry

oh these crazy times

All the stores are closing early

half the factories shut down

people are sleeping in the allies

cause we could only bail a couple out

talking heads on the tv

try to tell us what to do

how do you separate the truth from the fake

cause man I ain't got a clue

Time's just a passin'

everyone's fine if you ask 'em

like we're pulling a fast one with our smiles

when it gets real bad

just raise your glass

we might as well laugh before we cry

oh these crazy times

I close my eyes and remember

the ones we lost last spring

rising profits mix with goodness

like that oil in the sea

Time's just a passin'

everyone's fine if you ask 'em

like we're pulling a fast one with our smiles

when it gets real bad

just raise your glass

we might as well laugh before we cry

oh these crazy times

I remember when

but forget how long it's been

since we all lived in peace

but you can't just sit and grieve

the growing gap between

what we know and believe

Time's just a passin'

everyone's fine if you ask 'em

like we're pulling a fast one with our smiles

when it gets real bad

just raise your glass

we might as well laugh before we cry

oh these crazy times

Well I’m running out of new words to say

And the sky’s been a grayish blue for days

And the slowly growing sympathy

Waits for me on every face.

I’m trying to figure out what clever is

I look for clues in awkward silences.

And I don’t know what happened

But I’ve been this way ever since.

And the truth that keeps me up at night

Is somehow hard to recognize

And the world is keeping both my eyes closed.

Yeah everybody knows.

There are elephants in every room I see,

They softly hum beneath the words we speak.

We’ve sugarcoating everything

And now it’s rotting out my teeth.

And the truth that keeps me up at night

Is the hardest thing to recognize.

And the world is telling my eyes

What to see.

And everybody knows but me.

To live you have to know what to ignore

Decisions set the good and bad at war

Your life is what you’ve chosen, but

Living is the back and forth.

And the truth that keeps me up at night

Is the hardest thing to recognize.

And the world is pulling my eyes closed, closed.

And time’s not what she used to be

She’s turned into an enemy.

And all that was in front of me is behind.

God knows how I try.