Here's some sunshine pop......if you're Ian Curtis, maybe!

Evergreen Vol. 2 (1967)
[available on CD for about, oh, three minutes in the 90s]

New Hard Times
written by Mayne Smith and B. Kimmel

Ask any mirror
Is there no escape
He will show you lines that time
has etched into your face

And all around the edges
Life is turning gray
And you can no longer turn
your head the other way

And the new hard times are here
And the new hard times are here

When eating comes too easy
Nothing makes you think
There's too much time to sun yourself
And too much wine to drink

And now there's nothing left to help
maintain your failing pride
You hunger for the older days
when rich men satisfied

And the new hard times are here
And the new hard times are here

In the twilight years life takes a bend
And you start to view it from the other end
You laughed a lot and had your fun
Now you find there's so much left undone
And

Ashes to ashes,
dust to dust
In your lifetime that's the only
rule you've come to trust

And waiting 'round the corner
To put his arms around you
Death comes a'courting
And you don't know what to do

And the new hard times are here
And the new hard times are here
And the new hard times are here
And the new hard times are here