“Right and Wrong” Lyrics - Joe Jackson

Lyrics

“Right and Wrong”


Stop everything

I think I hear the President

The Pied Piper of the TV screen

Is gonna make it simple

And he’s got it all mapped out

And illustrated with cartoons

Too hard for clever folks to understand

They’re more used to words like:

Ideology

They’re not talkin’ ’bout right and left

They’re talkin’ ’bout

Right and wrong, do you know the difference

Right and wrong, do you know the difference

‘Tween the right and the left and the east and the west

What you know and the things that you’ll never see

So what ya think

You like the Yankees or the Mets this year

And what about this latest war of words

And what about the Commies

I saw the news last night

All illustrated with cartoons

So when they come with that opinion poll

They better not use words like

Ideology

Or try to tell me ’bout the issues

Ideology

Whose side are you on

We’re talkin’ ’bout

Right and wrong, do you know the difference

Right and wrong, do you know the difference

‘Tween the right and the left and the east and the west

What you know and the things that you’ll never see

Where are we?

Right and wrong, do you know the difference

Right and wrong, do you know the difference

‘Tween the right and the left and the east and the west

What you know and the things that you’ll never see