Verse 1: I wonder if we'll have an Indian summer this fall? Wonder where I'll spend my vacation or if I'll even bother taking it at all. You see it's not that easy being me. Can't seem to make ends meet on a five digit dollar a year salary and oh, woe is me.

Verse 2: I work on the fortieth floor in a building with a guard out front, then I ride the subway home to my twentieth story flat on the Harbour Front.

Chorus: You see it's not that easy being me, that's why I like to get home and watch my colour TV, but oh, woe is me, programming's lousy.

Bridge 1: Because who cares about South Koreans fighting for the right to fight? About Blacks in South Africa fighting for their God given rights? Who cares about the people in Chile who disappear each day? I know some people I'd like to see end up that way and oh, woe is me.

Verse 3: Thank God for my video so I don’t miss a thing on TV, and for my laser disc, so I can hide in the music when the world’s after me. You see it’s not that easy, being me, always dining out or attending the right party and oh, woe is me.

Verse 4: Thoughts of cancer and Aids wakes me up in a fright, and do you know what it’s like to make love to a dirty magazine at night? You see it’s not that easy being me, that’s why I like to get home and watch my colour TV, but oh, woe is me, programming’s lousy.

Bridge 2: Because who cares about Lebanon and the nameless and the faceless who’ve died? About Arabs in camps and reporters lying dead in roadsides? Who cares, about the jobless in Britain and the homeless in the USA? I’ve got enough of a headache worrying about the bills I pay, and oh, woe is me.

Bridge 3: Because who cares about Communist regimes and Polish dreams? Who cares about laboratories finding out what makes an animal scream? Who cares about countries like Chad and threats from Libya , or about the famine down in Ethiopia ? And oh, woe is me.

Verse 5: I’ve having difficulties in accepting it all, that’s why I concentrate on important things like will we have an Indian summer this fall?

Chorus:

Bridge 3 : instrumental with “who cares”, “and oh, woe is me” and “The Conscience”)

Fade The conscience
“Your apathy is killing me. Oh…, oh. The tears I shed are for you and me, oh…, oh. Oh, think of someone else, not yourself, no. Think of someone else but yourself. And take the time to give, give a damn. Well, I care”.


Words & Music by David Liberty