Now, time's just a-passin'
Everyone's fine if you ask 'em
Like we're pullin' a fast one
With our smiles
And when it gets real bad
Oh, just raise your glass
We might as well laugh
Before we cry
Oh, these crazy times
All the stores are closing early
And half the factories shut down
People sleeping in the alley
We could only bail a couple out
Talking heads on the TV screen
Trying to tell us what to do
How do you separate
The truth from the fake
'Cause, man, I ain't got a clue
Now, time's just a-passin'
Everyone's fine if you ask 'em
Like we're pulling a fast one
With our smiles
When it gets real bad
Oh, just raise your glass
We might as well laugh
Before we cry
Oh, these crazy times
I close my eyes and remember
The ones we lost last spring
Rising profits mix with good nets
Like that oil in the sea
Now, time's just a-passin'
Everyone's fine if you ask 'em
Like we're pulling a fast one
With our smiles
When it gets real bad
Oh, just raise your glass
We might as well laugh
Before we cry
Oh, these crazy times
Now, I remember when
But forget how long it's been
Since we've all lived in peace
But you can't just sit and grieve
The growing gap between
What we know and believe
I believe
And time's just a-passin'
Everyone's fine if you ask 'em
It's like we're pulling a fast one
With our smiles
When it gets real bad
Oh, just raise your glass
We might as well laugh
Before we cry
Oh, these crazy times
Well, I'm running out of new words to say
And the sky has been the grayest blue for days
And the slowly growing sympathy
Waits for me on every face
I'm trying to figure out what clever is
And I look for clues in awkward silences
And I don't know what happened
But I've been this way ever since
And the truth that keeps me up at night
Is somehow hard to recognize
And the wool is keeping both my eyes closed
Everybody knows
There are elephants in every room I see
They softly hum beneath the words we speak
We've sugarcoated everything
Now it's rotting out my teeth
And the truth that keeps me up at night
Is the hardest thing to recognize
And the wool is telling my eyes what to see
And everybody knows but me
To live you have to know what to ignore
Decisions set the good and bad at war
Your life is what you've chosen
But living is the back-and-forth
And the truth that keeps me up at night
Is the hardest thing to recognize
And the wool is pulling my eyes closed, closed
And time's not what she used to be
She's turned into an enemy
And all that was in front of me is behind
God knows how I tried