Trouble Every Day-Frank Zappa

[00:12.82]Well I'm about to get sick [00:15.28]From watchin' my TV [00:17.25]Been checkin' out the news [00:18.79]Until my eyeballs fail to see [00:21.00]I mean to say that every day [00:22.80]Is just another rotten mess [00:24.91]And when it's gonna change, my friend [00:26.51]Is anybody's guess [00:28.68] [00:28.89]So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin' [00:31.03]Hopin' for the best [00:32.92]Even think I'll go to prayin' [00:34.92]Every time I hear 'em sayin' [00:36.77]That there's no way to delay [00:38.50]That trouble comin' every day [00:40.46]No way to delay [00:42.30]That trouble comin' every day [00:44.06] [00:53.08]Wednesday I watched the riot . . . [00:54.59]Seen the cops out on the street [00:56.60]Watched 'em throwin' rocks and stuff [00:58.68]And chokin' in the heat [01:00.61]Listened to reports [01:02.06]About the whisky passin' 'round [01:04.65]Seen the smoke and fire [01:06.09]And the market burnin' down [01:08.59]Watched while everybody [01:10.16]On his street would take a turn [01:12.55]To stomp and smash and bash and crash [01:14.58]And slash and bust and burn [01:16.30] [01:16.53]And I'm watchin' and I'm waitin' [01:18.80]Hopin' for the best [01:20.61]Even think I'll go to prayin' [01:22.07]Every time I hear 'em sayin' [01:24.41]That there's no way to delay [01:26.15]That trouble comin' every day [01:28.65]No way to delay [01:29.62]That trouble comin' every day [01:31.68] [01:43.16]Well, you can cool it, [01:45.25]You can heat it . . . [01:46.37]'Cause, baby, I don't need it . . . [01:48.33]Take your TV tube and eat it [01:49.83]'N all that phony stuff on sports [01:51.99]'N all the unconfirmed reports [01:53.71]You know I watched that rotten box [01:55.64]Until my head begin to hurt [01:58.30]From checkin' out the way [01:59.71]The newsman say they get the dirt [02:01.48]Before the guys on channel so-and-so [02:04.05] [02:04.45]And further they assert [02:05.74]That any show they'll interrupt [02:07.93]To bring you news if it comes up [02:09.69]They say that if the place blows up [02:12.07]They will be the first to tell, [02:13.80]Because the boys they got downtown [02:15.97]Are workin' hard and doin' swell, [02:17.81]And if anybody gets the news [02:20.24]Before it hits the street, [02:22.41]They say that no one blabs it faster [02:24.22]Their coverage can't be beat [02:26.07] [02:26.22]And if another woman driver [02:28.09]Gets machine-gunned from her seat [02:29.88]They'll send some joker with a brownie [02:31.94]And you'll see it all complete [02:33.88] [02:34.04]So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin' [02:36.16]Hopin' for the best [02:38.02]Even think I'll go to prayin' [02:39.69]Every time I hear 'em sayin' [02:41.79]That there's no way to delay [02:43.57]That trouble comin' every day [02:46.14]No way to delay [02:46.92]That trouble comin' every day [02:49.76] [02:53.66]Hey, you know something people? [02:56.25]I'm not black [02:57.39]But there's a whole lots a times [02:59.13]I wish I could say I'm not white [03:00.53] [03:05.75]Well, I seen the fires burnin' [03:07.09]And the local people turnin' [03:09.24]On the merchants and the shops [03:11.14]Who used to sell their brooms and mops [03:13.11]And every other household item [03:15.20]Watched a mob just turn and bite 'em [03:17.36]And they say it served 'em right [03:19.15]Because a few of them are white, [03:21.31]And it's the same across the nation [03:23.22]Black and white discrimination [03:25.11]Yellin' "You can't understand me!" [03:26.81]'N all that other jazz they hand me [03:29.12]In the papers and TV and [03:30.99]All that mass stupidity [03:32.93]That seems to grow more every day [03:34.74]Each time you hear some nitwit say [03:36.80]He wants to go and do you in [03:38.89]Because the color of your skin [03:40.80]Just don't appeal to him [03:42.94](No matter if it's black or white) [03:44.87]Because he's out for blood tonight [03:47.01] [04:20.89]You know we got to sit around at home [04:22.88]And watch this thing begin [04:24.77]But I bet there won't be many live [04:26.73]To see it really end [04:28.41]'Cause the fire in the street [04:30.29]Ain't like the fire in the heart [04:32.31]And in the eyes of all these people [04:34.26]Don't you know that this could start [04:36.24]On any street in any town [04:38.18]In any state if any clown [04:40.08]Decides that now's the time to fight [04:42.20]For some ideal he thinks is right [04:44.14]And if a million more agree [04:46.08]There ain't no Great Society [04:47.95]As it applies to you and me [04:49.93]Our country isn't free [04:51.86]And the law refuses to see [04:54.27]If all that you can ever be [04:55.80]Is just a lousy janitor [04:57.69]Unless your uncle owns a store [04:59.89]You know that five in every four [05:01.70]Just won't amount to nothin' more [05:03.55]Gonna watch the rats go across the floor [05:05.88]And make up songs about being poor [05:07.89] [05:09.36]Blow your harmonica, son!