Erykah Badu - Twinkle

I don't have to tell you that things aren't good
Everyone knows that things aren't good
We know the air's unfit to breathe,
And our food is unfit to eat!
Young punks are running the streets
no one knows just what to do
and there's no end to it.
The Dollar buys a penny's worth!
Banks are going under,
Congress are keeping a gun under the counter!
We sit watching our idiot boxes,
while some local anchor man
tell us that
today we've had 18 murders and 80 violent crimes
as if
that was the way things was supposed to be!
We know times are bad,
worse than bad!
People are crazy!
It's like everything everywhere
is going utterly mad!
So we never leave our homes!
We sit in our comfy abodes,
while the world is getting smaller.
And we say
Come on!
At least leave us alone in our family rooms,
Let me have my microwave
And
Flatscreen
And my
20 inch rims,
and i wont say anything!
Just leave us alone!
Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone!
I want you to get angry!
I don't want you to riot,
I don't want you to protest,
I don't want you to write to your senator
because i won't know what to tell you to tell him!
I don't know what to do about the recession,
and the inflation,
and the crime in the streets!
All I know is that you got to get mad!
You've got to say:
I'm a human being dammit!
My life has value!