There's a closing down sale at the hardware store
They just can't make ends meet anymore
Old Bill McAllistar is close to tears
That place has been in his family for 90 odd years
So there's a few more people for the unemployment queue
A welcome to these uncertain times
I hear the Atkinson boy quit the farm last night
The way things are it wasn't worth the fight
He'd been working those fields for three weeks straight
Took his four wheel drive through the closed front gate
So now there's one man left trying to do the work of three
Ahh the casualties
Of these uncertain times
They say nothing happens
In this town
The sun comes up
The sun goes down
Like promises made
At election time
When they get your vote
They change their mind
They called a public meeting down the shire hall
Something a local member wants to tell us all
Seems the government has come up with a rescue plan
He wants to show us their proposal for a great big dam
And where we are now, we'll be 50 feet below
And wouldn't you know
These uncertain times
So nothing happens
In this town
The sun comes up
The sun goes down
But if they try to take
My land away
We'll see who has
The final say
I'll get old Bill McAllistar and the Atkinson boy
And everyone else here who's unemployed
We'll show these politicians a thing or two
They'll be sending in a chopper from the TV news
And we'll be on the front page of every paper in this land
Ahh you gotta make a stand
In these uncertain times
You gotta make a stand
In these uncertain times
You gotta make a stand
In these uncertain times
Gotta make a stand
In these uncertain times