Oh Mrs. Klankit (?), have you been deceived, by all the bloodthirsty rubbish that you've seen on the street? In the unholy shadow of the money tree, where you jerked at the branches, and you got on your knees, praying lord no lord am I ever in need, playing high low low, and the stakes are too steep, as you drift through the ocean of the dirtiest streets, and your thirsty little voice compels you to sing -
As you sing out, and you sing out, as you sing out, Lord you sing, as you sing out, and you sing out, as you sing out, Lord you sing - that the Good Times have let you down again, well the good times have let you down again, well the good times have let you down again, yeah the good times have let you down again.
Now your whole greedy army has risen again, playing the rhythm with loud shaky hands, and the clang of your heartbreak, shapes the (?) of your boat, your young brash leader shouts the same one note -
singing Lord no Lord is this really the end? and the days are many and the nights are spent (?), as you drift through the ocean of the dirtiest streets, and your little groan compels you to sing -
as you sing out, and you sing out, yeah you sing out, Lord you sing. Oh yeah you sing out, and you sing out, and you sing out, Lord you sing - that the Good Times have let you down again, that the good times have let you down again, that the good times have let you down again, yeah the good times have let you down again,
Oh lay down your hands, let it all pass on, let it all pass on, Oh lay down your hands, let it all pass on, let it all pass on, the good times have gone.
All alone in your dirty rags, this is all that's left of all you had, when the money is gone and your sycophants have left you for a younger romance -
and now it's party party party for your hip young traitors cashing in the virtues of their rotten behavior, strumming hell on their lyres as we burn in distraction - the men of talk killed the men of action.
And we sing out, yeah we sing out, yeah we sing out, Lord we sing, oh we sing out, oh yeah we sing out, Lord we sing out, oh we sing -
That the good times have let us down again that the good times have let us down again yeah the good times have let us down again oh yeah the good times have let us down again