These Crazy Times Songtext
von Jon McLaughlin

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
All these crazy times

All the stores are closing early
And half the factories shut down
People sleeping in the alley
'Cause we could only bail a couple out
Talking heads on the TV screen
They try to tell us what to do
But 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 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
All these crazy times

I close my eyes and remember
The ones we lost last spring
Rising profits mix with goodness
Like that oil in the sea

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
All these crazy times

Maybe someday
Maybe someday
Maybe someday we'll come
Maybe someday
Maybe someday
Maybe someday we′ll come


Now, I remember when
But forget how long it′s been
Since we 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 pullin′ a fast one with our smiles
Oh, when it gets real bad
Oh, just raise your glass
We might as well laugh before we cry
All these crazy times
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
And everybody knows

There are elephants in every room I see
They softly hum beneath the words we speak
We′ve sugar coated everything and 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
And 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