Tailspin, is the world gonna win?
Is the ocean gonna open up and let us in?
Hard luck, your policies suck
Your rhetoric will save your face but not your skin
This crime is hard to define
So watch the leaves turn brown for the last time
Too late, you've sealed our fate
No u-turns, no emergency debate

But wait
I hate unhappy endings
And there doesn't have to be one

Tailspin, the airs getting thin
The ocean;s getting sick of all the crap you're pumping in
Test ban, get a real good tan
Your rhetoric'll save your face but not your cancerous skin-
Deep, life is cheap
The forests pine and the willow's weep
Check-mate, you've sealed our fate
The world is way past it's sell-by date

But wait
I hate unhappy endings
And there doesn't have to be one
Tailspin, is the world gonna win?
Tailspin, from the outside looking in
Tailspin, I repent my sins
But when I get to heaven will he let me in?
Tailspin, save our skins
Save our skins

But wait
I hate unhappy endings
And there doesn't have to be one
The message we are sending
Is a very real one
The world we are defending
Could be a very green one
We all hate unhappy endings
And there doesn't have to be one
There doesn't have to be one
There doesn't have to be a tailspin