Ray Davies - Nobody Gives lyrics

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 Everybody's 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 k** 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 I'm only sitting here watching it all go on And listening to both sides Yeah, why can't we talk it out Why can't we sort it out We'll work it out if we try Why can't we sit down and work out a compromise Why not negotiate and try to be civilised? I'll tell you why, because nobody gives a damn Nobody listens and no one will understand Yet I'm wondering, sitting here wondering And listening to both sides Why can't we work it out? Why can't we sort it out? We'll work it out if we try Why can't we sit down and work out a compromise Why not negotiate and try to be civilised? I'll tell you why, because nobody gives a damn Nobody listens and no one will understand Yet, I'm wondering, sitting here wondering Yet I'm wondering, sitting here wondering Listening to both sides Nobody gives, nobody gives, nobody gives The workers told the unions who blamed it on the government The politicians blamed it on the strikers and the militants Everybody's guilty and everybody's innocent Nobody gives. Nobody gives a damn any more The politicians, unions, workers and the militants The fact of it is nobody gives any more