Welcome to the year 2000, minus 25
  Oh say, can you smell 'er for the smoke?
  God's still up there laughin'
  So he's gotta be alive
  Who says he can't take a dirty joke?
  
  Power is and power does and power slips away
  It's so easy to abuse.
  Who'da thought them Arabs woulda bought the USA
  Just to give it to the Jews?
  
  Chorus:
  Singin' crime still don't pay
  Just like it used to
  (Just like it used to)
  And time slips away 'til you die
  (Slips away 'til you die)
  You know but I don't give a damn
  When I choose to
  (When I choose to)
  And you know but it don't hurt so bad
  When you're high
  (When you're high)
  
  Oh say does the future of the homesick and the brave
  Even matter anymore
  There ain't no more reason for them boys to run away now
  Than there was the fight before
  And could you tell me why the hell we tried to win back in the war
  What we wasted in the last?
  Might just ain't as righteous as it used to be before
  When your army's out of gas
  
  Chorus:
  Singin' crime still don't pay
  Just like it used to
  (Just like it used to)
  And time slips away 'til you die
  (Slips away 'til you die)
  You know but I don't give a damn
  When I choose to
  (When I choose to)
  And you know but it don't hurt so bad
  When you're high
  (When you're high)