Bruce Cockburn Lyrics
"Let The Bad Air Out"

Judge said to the hooker, "Can you come out to play?
I've been condemning people all day long, that's how I get paid
My dreams are full of criminals frolicking about

Open up the window, let the bad air out
Open up the window, let the bad air out

Strangled by confusion, my mind is in decay
Can't picture tomorrow, can't remember yesterday
Send out for the Black and Decker and the psychiatric couch

Open up the window, let the bad air out
Open up the window, let the bad air out

Traitors in high places take my money, tell me lies
Take a walk past Parliament, smells like something died
They ask for trust, but somehow I've got serious doubts

Open up the window, let the bad air out
Open up the window, let the bad air out

Too much monkey business, like Mr. Berry said
Drugs and oil and money, there'll be nothing when you're dead
At the risk of being subversive, nothing left to do but shout

Open up the window, let the bad air out
Open up the window, let the bad air out
Open up the window, let the bad air out
Open up the window, let the bad air out

Open up the window (let the bad air out)
Open up the window (let the bad air out)
Open up the window (let the bad air out)
Open up the window (let the bad air out)