Well, we’re droppin' our bombs
In the southern hemisphere
And people are starving
That live right here
And they’re tearing down walls
In the name of peace
And they’re killing each other
In the Middle East
But love and happiness
Have forgotten our names
And there’s no value left
In love and happiness
They raise the price of oil
And they censor our mouths
If you’re a young couple today
Forget buying a house
And we wage our wars
In the neighborhoods
We kill the young to feed the old
And man that ain’t no good
But love and happiness
Have forgotten our names
And there’s no value left
In love and happiness
So, if you sell arms
Or you run dope
You got respect
And you got hope
But the rest of us die
On your battle fields
With wounds that fester and bleed
But never heal
But love and happiness
Have forgotten our names
And there’s no value left
In love and happiness
And love and happiness
And love and happiness
Have forgotten our names
And there’s no value left
In love and happiness
Love and happiness
Love and happiness
Love and happiness
Saw him in concert for this tour. did a great job and the drummer gets a heck of a workout. But every word means just as much today as it did back then maybe even more. Not a thing has changed.
I discovered J.M. and Tom Petty at the same time. 1992. I was 20 and neither of them were very well-known here in Spain. But Whenever we wanted and Into the great wide open sounded great to me and they are still. I tried to get more good records from both artists and I got lots from Petty but I can´t say the same about Mellencamp. This is the only record I really like but it´s so good that I know I´ll keep on listening till the end of my bloody life.