We're faced with mile-high piles of money Sitting in banks Gold bars, credit cards Aeroplanes and tanks Buy, buy, satisfy Call me when you're rich Cheap food, cows dying in a ditch
We're having a hard time Holding the thin green line
We're faced with out-of-town shopping malls Suburban housing boom Inner city empty lots Damp in all the rooms Bulls and bears, speculators Marks, francs, yen And the baby's crying again
We're having a hard time Holding the thin green line
So come on down to the bottle bank Make your deposit and relax Nothing's going on behind your back We'll make all the big decisions You just watch the television Smash the brown! Smash the green! Smash the clear! It won't happen here
We're having a hard time Holding the thin green Line
We watch the last of the species Vanish from the screens And get replaced by killer dogs And their man on the scene There are peeping toms, pop songs Crime and sin and sex All spewing out on newsprint While the forest dies a death They're cooling down reactors While the natives die of thirst They say let's all pull together You first
We're having a hard time Holding the thin green line
They say let's all pull together - you first But they never pull together No wonder we're having a hard time Holding the thin green line