Black Tuesday

Suicides beneath gray skies. Inside the houses where the babies cry.
Starving on dreams on this lonely, black Tuesday. (I think it is today. (I think) I think it is today.)

Funnel clouds roaring way up high over littered streets where the homeless hide.
Silent, like someone important died. We’re just starving on dreams on this lonely, black Tuesday.
(I think it is today. (I think) I think it is today...There’s nowhere to pray...There’s nowhere to pray...)

I figured out the world...I’m a troubled adolescent....Is there any reason to survive?
‘Cause we are living in a great depression...
I found true love...I learned all of its lessons...Is there any reason to survive?
We, the children of a great depression...(press on)

So, repress my love for you, Scarlet. You were my biggest sin, harlot. There could be nothing quite more tragic than to bleed in the streets...like a fucking American...like a fucking American...(A product of the depression.)

Screechy windmills twirling in the night over cracking earth, overused and dry. Dust storms taking our kids from sight. We’re just starving on dreams on this lonely, black Tuesday.
How could the market crash this way? We lost all faith in our currency. In God we trust became a God of hate that severed our souls and caused this heartache.

And It wouldn’t matter who you are, JFK or FDR. These times are changing, changing who you ARE...These times are changing who you ARE... These times are changing you into who you aren’t...(Who will win the next election? My brain is froze, memories in repression. Burn your enemies in a homemade cremation and sell their remains to an organ donation.)

I figured out the world...I’m a troubled adolescent...Is there any reason to survive?
‘Cause we are living in a great depression...
I found true love...I learned all of its lessons...Is there any reason to survive?
We, the children of a great depression...(press on)

So, repress my love for you, Scarlet. You were my biggest sin, harlot. There could be nothing quite more tragic than to bleed in the streets...like a fucking American...like a fucking American....like a fucking American...