There Is No Time Lou Reed

[Verse 1]
This is no time for celebration
This is no time for shaking hands
This is no time for backslapping
This is no time for marching bands
This is no time for optimism
This is no time for endless thought
This is no time for my country right or wrong
Remember what that brought

[Chorus]
There is no time
There is no time
There is no time
There is no time

[Verse 2]
This is no time for congratulations
This is no time to turn your back
This is no time for circumlocution
This is no time for learned speech
This is no time to count your blessings
This is no time for private gain
This is the time to put up or shut up
It won't come back this way again