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 crime in the street.
All I know is that first, you’ve got to get mad.
You’ve gotta say, “I’m a human being, goddammit! My life has value!
We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat.
We sit watching our TVs while some newscaster tells us… that today we had 15 homicides and 63 violent crimes… as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be!
We know things are bad. Worse than bad. They’re crazy.
Everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore.
We sit in the house. Slowly the world we’re living in is getting smaller.
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.
I won’t say anything Just leave us alone.
I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad!
