This song makes a great point in raising awareness about our social frame of mind. The song tricks us into listening to what we are supposed to say to the so-called “new world order” (in other words, to fight it) for something they offer us: a brand new life with everything that seems so much better. We are not their puppets. We are valuable human beings, as Maybeshewill says in the song.
While unemployed people are craving jobs and businessmen are scared of losing theirs, we forget one thing. We are not supposed to be controlled, emotionally or physically, by those who call themselves (or ourselves) our saviors. “We have the field you wanted, we offer you the future you admired.”
Once again, let us think about it. About how we value our lives without denying the reality that we are getting worse day by day. Yes, we are getting worse day by day. Our thinking, our insights, and our lives. The truth is, we are still blindfolded.
The song is one of the tracks included in the Not for Want of Trying album. You can buy it on iTunes.
Everybody knows things are bad, It’s a depression.Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job.The dollar buys a nickel’s worth… banks are going bust… shop-keepers keep a gun under the counter… punks are running wild on the street and there’s nobody anywhere that seems to know what to do.And there’s no end to it.We know the air is unfit to breathe, our food is unfit to eat…We sit watching our T.V.s 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’re living in is getting smaller and we say:“Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms, let me have my toaster and my T.V. and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything – just leave us alone.”But I’m not gonna leave you alone…I want you to get mad!I don’t want you to protest and I don’t want you to riot or write 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 or 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, Goddamn it, my life has value!”I want you to get up now,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!”Maybeshewill – Not for Want of Trying
