Todd Rundgren - If Not Now, When? lyrics

Someone stuck me on the losing side Everything is someone else's fault We're not good enough for me to care And the mantra is "Too much effort, there's never time" And your sole solution is a high pitched whine It's not red-hot coals, it's not busted gla** There's no Mau-Maus after your sweet pink a** So if not now when, if not now when, if not now when? If not you, who then? No one wants to be the first to fail I won't play unless you guard my back And the mantra is "Change the system, and please arrange it To change some way that I feel no change" It's not flaming necklaces, household spies There's no market bombings, no bullets fly Bosnia, Bosnia Try spelling "Herzegovina" Where money talks and bullsh** walks The bullet or the ballet box Babylon, oh Babylon We babble on in Babylon The TV blows, the music s**s The bullet or the ballot box We're not good enough for me to care And the mantra is "Leave the gun on the table loaded The first to grab it's as good as voted in"