time's just a passin' everyone's find if you ask 'em like we're pulling a fast one with our smiles when it gets real bad just raise your glass we might as well laugh before we cry oh these crazy times all the stores are closing early half the factories shut down people are sleeping in the allies cause we could only bail a couple out talking heads on the tv try to tell us what to do how do you separate the truth from the fake cause man I ain't got a clue time's just a passin' everyone's find if you ask 'em like we're pulling a fast one with our smiles when it gets real bad just raise your glass we might as well laugh before we cry oh these crazy times I close my eyes and remember the ones we lost last spring rising profits mix with goodness like that oil in the sea time's just a passin' everyone's find if you ask 'em like we're pulling a fast one with our smiles when it gets real bad just raise your glass we might as well laugh before we cry oh these crazy times I remember when but forget how long it's been since we all lived in peace but you can't just sit and grieve the growing gap between what we know and believe