Got beggars and clerks   Got teachers and kids   Elected men off work   Defrocked preachers forbid   I wonder how they can stand it   Or if they care at all   As they waste the last few days   Before the fall      Homesick prisoners   And party throwers   With all their honored guests   And their going nowheres   You know i cannot be bothered   Just ain't no point at all   I've done a lot of screaming   But no one would heed the call   Before the fall      Talk show hosts   Prophets and the police   Swinging bachelor ghosts   And lone divorcees   I don't wanna hear no more   Not a word about this at all   No use to keep on screaming   'Cause no one will head the call   Before the fall