We got a drug
We're gonna try it out on you
Won't make you die
It'll get you just a little bit sick

Got a head cold
Got a chest cold
And it's two days old
Goin' on forever
Make you hazy
Make you lazy
Drive you crazy
For day and days and day and days and years

Barely got the time now
To stay on the job
Double up the dosage
In your water supply
Make you even sicker 'til you're slippin' away

Make you all depressed
It's getting all your friends
You can't get it up
For nothing that'll rock the boat

The government flu
The government flu
The government flu

Slip it aboard
Keep-a-slowin' down the USSR
But meanwhile, we'll keep an eye
On what it's doin' to you

Got a head cold
Got a chest cold
And it's two days old
Goin' on forever
Make you hazy
Make you lazy
Drive you crazy
For days and days and days and days and days
And days and days and days and days and days
And days and days and days and days and days
And years

The government flu
The government flu
The government flu
Flew, Through, You