These are hard times we're living in Nobody cuts you any slack We got Space Age machinery, Stone Age emotions Today a man had better watch his back Everybody's selling somethin', the baron and the bumpkin A man has got to fight for what is his If what they're offering to you looks too good to be true You can bet your bottom dollar that it is No, thank you I don't think so I think I'm smellin' a rat Don't tell me what you're gonna do for me Cause I've been there, done that Lady Luck's been good to me I'm as grateful as can be Never thought this crazy ride would ever last And though nostalgia is fine, I respectfully decline To spend my future living in the past I've been carrying my load down this same old rocky road Every day I'm getting deeper in a rut Workin' overtime, now a dollar's worth a dime And everybody wants a bigger cut No, thank you I don't think so You must think I'm blind as a bat I sure appreciate what you're tryin' to do for me But I've been there, done that B.S. blaring from the radio, the TV Hot wind blowin' off The Hill It's a mystery to me we can't agree to disagree It's lookin' like we never, ever will Like a drunkard in the night, swingin' left and swingin' right Republican or Democrat Well, I ain't got no love for none of the above Cause I've been there, done that No, thank you I don't think so It's a little too pat Don't tell me to take it easy Cause I've been there, done that No. thank you I don't think so There's nothin' under your hat No, I won't be in your movie Cause I've been there, done that I've been there, done that I've been there. done that I've been there, done that