They couldn't make it go
For they really didn't know
And everything caved in
And went into a spin
For the world was going down, down, down to die.
But I say —

CHORUS:
We're going up while the world goes down
We wear a smile while the world wears a frown
While other things die we are very alive
So why not join us and survive?

I was on a college campus
And the books were all ablaze
The night sticks were a-flying
And the tear gas made a haze

A bunch of students screaming
Knocked me to the ground
As they tore up the militia
And broke windows all around
I was in a Safeway row
Of housewives and no chow
Who said they'd been forsaken
By even moldy bacon

The manager's cruel cry
Was the actual why
They'd ate up all the animals
And now must turn to cannibals

For the world was going down, down, down to die.
But said I —

CHORUS

I swam in muddy oceans
With no need of sunburn lotions
For no sun could ever shine
Through the air and water slime

The garbage became mountains
And sewage sprayed in fountains
For there was no solution
To extremes of earth pollution

I saw all the heads of state
Run out an open gate
But even in revolt
Mankind was a dolt

And just set up again
Whatever they had slain
And hungered for the rule
Of any stupid fool
For the world was going down, down, down to die.
But said I —

CHORUS

With a long syringe
The doctors had a binge
In socking in the drugs
And making children into mugs

And psychiatry did think
Of all heads they could shrink
They'd stop all copulation
And control the population

The crashes of inflation
Spread out across each nation
Until all their paper money
Became extremely funny

And it took two trucks
Loaded with the bucks
To buy a loaf of bread
From a baker that was dead

For the world was going down, down, down to die.
But said I —

CHORUS

Do not be a fool
And think you can get fuel
For nothing could be worse
Than Rockyfeller's purse.

And you sit like a toad
At the side of the road
In a rig that is balking
Even worse than walking

As the smoky air descends
And they meet their choking ends
Stand and watch it for a while
And try to hide your smile.

It's their bed and there they lay
The price is theirs to pay
And it's millions they will spend
As they go around the bend

When the world was going down, down, down to die.
But said I —

CHORUS

Wait a minute, listen:

But then we saw a way
That man could work and play
In summer and the sun
And all the world was one

For we can set you free
And a better guy you'll be
And give you liberty
And Scientology

In a world we're taking up, up, up way high.

CHORUS:

We're going up while the world goes down
We wear a smile while the world wears a frown
While other things die we are very alive
So why not join us and survive?