Buyin' Time

(album: Illegal Stills - 1976)

Unless you believe in magic
There ain't much left you can be
A skeptic or a fool
Have you been watching your TV

Incredible is all I think of
Did I really see
Wordless faces double talking
A running it down to me

About buying time
Brother can you spare a dime
And ain't it a crime
How we got to buy time, yeah

People going hungry
Ain't no jobs, they're in the street
Nobody's got no answer
They're just staring at their feet

Ain't no way about it
Things are looking pretty bleak
And everybody's scuffling hard
Trying to make ends meet

We're just buying time
Brother can you spare a dime
Ain't it a crime
How we got to buy time, yeah

It happened once before, you know in 1932
But now there's so many more of us
There's something we gotta do

Something radical, something different
Got to hit on something new
America, the dream is lost
And it's killing me and you

We're buying time
Brother can you spare a dime
Ain't it a crime
How we got to buy time

We're just buying time