Nobody Gives The Kinks

Sung by The Tramp

I can't understand why everybody's quarreling
Nobody gives in case they lose face
And everybody's guilty and everybody's innocent
And the fact of it is nobody gives any more

It's the same throughout all history
Nobody gives unless they receive
And nobody trusts or is willing to believe
And nobody gives or is willing to concede

Back in nineteen hundred and twenty-five
There were thousands of people struggling to survive
There was hunger, unemployment and poverty
Then in 1926 they decided to be free
So they all went on strike and
The workers told the unions, who blamed it on the government
The politicians blamed it on the strikers and the militants
Every one is guilty and everybody's innocent
But the fact of it is nobody gives any more

Back in nineteen hundred and thirty-nine
There were scores of German military waiting in a line
And the Fatherland wanted what the world wouldn't give
And then Hitler decided he could take what was his
So they all went to war and said
Kill all the left-wing intellectuals
Annihilate the Jews and wipe out their race
Eliminate the weak because they're ineffectual
And the fact of it is nobody gives any more