Awfully Loud World

It's an awfully loud world
You can't hear yourself think
It can make you join the monastery
It can drive you to drink, oh...

With the sound of the bullets flyin'
And the sound of the children cryin'
Yeah, the sound of the man
On the TV commercial
Selling you what you're buyin'

It's an awfully loud world
If you make a big noise
Well, well, well
And if you're marching
To a different drum
It don't go over big with the boys
Oh...

It's the sound of the party you revel
And the sound of that money metal
And the sound of the band
On the radio station
Singin' "Sympathy for the Devil"

Hey, it's an awfully loud world
Yeah, yeah
Awfully loud world
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Baby, it's an awfully loud world
That's right
Baby, it's an awfully loud world
Day and night, night and day
No wonder you can't get away

With the sound of the big wheels turnin'
And the sound of a little world squirmin'
And the sound of the kiddies
At the cartoon altar
It's teachin' them what they're learnin'

It's an awfully loud world
In an awfully small room
And it gets so much
You can't hear nothing else
And not a soul is immune
It's an awfully loud world
Screamin' louder each day
We're cryin', "cut it out, shut it down
Someone make it please go away"

It's an awfully loud world
It's an awfully loud world
It's an awfully loud world
It's an awfully loud world

That's right, loud world
That's right, loud world