Lyrics by Zimmy Dandy

The lights are going out
The sound is turning down
Cars are stalling, planes are falling
All across town

Everyone is coming out
And dancing in the town square
Everything is upside-down
But we don’t really even care

We don’t know what happened
But the system is down
We don’t know who did it
Prob’ly some clown
We’re free from the chains
Free to use our brains
We’re going insane
The system is down

The interac machines don’t work
The VISA cards won’t swipe
You want to get to work? You can’t
The bus won’t run, now don’t you gripe

Bureaucracy is disappearing
All the stocks are falling fast
Cubicles and paperwork
They’re no more at last

We don’t know what happened
But the system is down
We don’t know who did it
Prob’ly some clown
We’re free from the chains
Free to use our brains
We’re going insane
The system is down

Who thought that all our everyday
Necessities would hamper us
With all these gone, a new life dawns
Something free of stress and fuss

No kind of leader’s in control
And chaos will ensue
But let’s ignore that fact right now
And just do what we wanna do

We don’t know what happened
But the system is down
We don’t know who did it
Prob’ly some clown
We’re free from the chains
Free to use our brains
We’re going insane
The system–

System. System. System system system.

— is down

• • •

Get up at 6
Go to work
Leave at 5
Ignore the hurt

Live your life
As you choose
But make sure you
Obey the rules

The beat of life
Inside the box
I want to scream
But I can’t talk

I pass my days
In constant fear
There must be some way
Out of here