Smash Mouth - Walkin' On The Sun
Time: 1:08
Twenty-five years ago, they spoke out and they broke out
Of recession and oppression and together they toked
And they folked out with guitars around a bonfire

decline; the state of the economy declines
Heard in 43 songs (223M+ combined views) — most famously in "Walkin' On The Sun" by Smash Mouth.
Updated July 26, 2026
Time: 1:08
Twenty-five years ago, they spoke out and they broke out
Of recession and oppression and together they toked
And they folked out with guitars around a bonfire

Time: 0:42
What you want dog
Trying to stay recession free
And spit, refreshingly
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Time: 1:11
Soon as I hit the hood, they screamin' "Who got wacked?" (Got wacked)
It's a recession on the work, I'm screamin', "Who got crack?" (Who got crack?)
I'm sippin' Hennessy (Hennessy), ridin' on my motherfuckin' enemies (enemies)

Time: 0:26
Close to depression, open your eyes and just focus a second
Fuck a recession my brother -- my mind is my weapon; I'm letting it go
Loading and pointing at negative energy, telling me stop

Time: 3:07
My defense mechanism tell me to get him, quickly because he got it
It's the recession, then why the fuck he in King of Diamonds?
No more livin' poor, meet my .44

Time: 1:56
I take shots of adrenaline (adrenaline)
'Cause that's the way I receive immunization against the recession
I got the muscle off of my hustle-and-flow money

Time: 0:00
I dedicate this song to recession
Depression and unemployment

Time: 1:51
Motivation then I dropped inspiration, I done it twice (Yeah)
Sold a few quarters in plastic, I gave 'em class (Recession, nigga)
Nigga served a few on the take, that closed casket (Ayy)

Time: 4:26
'N' my cards always accepted, I don't deal well with rejection
I look in the dictionary 'n' don't see the word recession
I don't smoke in public but tonight I'll make an exception so just

Time: 2:00
I done fucked a thousand bitches who BD's think I'm garbage
Well it's a pandemic, world recession, I'm never starving
Nigga play with my money, leave him lumpy like Martin

Time: 0:50
I ain't never comin' down, yeah, yeah
This pandemic got us in a recession
We need to reopen America (what?)

Time: 2:40
Man the section 8 depressin'
Hard to be progressin' through recession and oppression
Not to mention that they had us cell blocked ever since an adolescent

Time: 0:57
Cold-hearted monsters, whole city going bonkers
Ain't nobody recession proof (recession proof)
Invest in you, that's what it's best to do (best to do)

Time: 3:09
I done run through so much Scottish notes
Couldn't care 'bout no recessions (one)
Still get one jail call from Boogie

Time: 2:13
Big Berg in the Honda, the purse (Woo)
And we coppin' shit in the recession, nigga
Fire hoes too, you know what I'm sayin'?

Time: 2:02
Fly and flashy, oh, oh, oh
Ain't no recession bitch, ain't got collections bitch
I don't respect the bitch, I might say fuck the bitch

Time: 0:48
You say all your gas gone, I'm gon' fill your tank up
Fill that piggy bank up, care 'bout no recession
Why you second guessin'? Answer this one question

Time: 2:02
And yeah, I'll be in a whole new tax bracket
We in recession, but let me take a crack at it
I'll probably take whatever's left and just split it up (there you go)

Time: 2:49
Bitchin', usin' all the women, intestine
But we accept it because of the recession
He groped my wife at the office party

Time: 3:28
Tell the truth, it's me nigga, ain't nobody else around
Jeezy said it's a recession, so we hustling that Mayweather
My [?] the best pound for pound, like Mayweather

Time: 2:28
Ah, on the pressure to make this money
This recession making things so hard
I don't wanna do nothin' illegal

Time: 3:18
And all those, and all those shoes?
Yeah I know it's the recession baby, but give me some money
Yeah come on now be generous

Time: 0:41
But he don't want to hear it, it's out of the question
'Cause in my section, it's worse than recession
So I go to a rich neighborhood and play Robin Hood

Time: 1:19
I'm over-loyal, man, I'll ride for what I'm repping
Dark times, niggas dying in recession
You was fighting with your girl when I was fighting my depression

Time: 4:07
Parker Brothers, Ouija board, I covered that Adam whore
Niggaz get their labels but wait, it's a recession in weight
You downloadin' on all the industry's veterans

Time: 0:55
Chump Hare Rama, ain't no good to try
Recession
Depression

Time: 2:41
I'm hard to follow once I pop the clutch and hit the throttle
I'm recession proof, I don't run to money, money run to me
In this economy guess some consider that anomaly

Time: 1:01
Leave it less on stock in elections
With no progression, just recessions
Shoes for running

Time: 0:44
Diplomats are passive with a promise again
Talk of recession, people in depression
Dow Jones, bank loans, the Japanese yen

Time: 0:37
We don't need agression
We don't need recession
Just give us some money

Time: 0:30
Why, why
On top of that it's a recession, I feel like Jay this can't be life, life
Tonight I'm leaving all my worries and my problems in the house

Time: 2:57
We've got a lot to drink about.
Recession, Aggression, Depression good God
CNN keeps bummin' me out.

Time: 1:36
When you owned land and when you were broke
Through recessions and addictions
It's just your accidental death

Time: 1:29
And I'm ready and willing to bust 'em, I'm fucking desperate
Stuck in this recession not what you think
If I could get signed my life is destined

Time: 2:21
Hard times got the whole United States stressin'
I'm writing a book, "How to Survive in a Recession" (g'yeah)
Mr. Obama, we so tired of sellin' crack

Time: 1:16
Dim the floor lights, focused like it's nothin', 'cause it's nothin', bitch
From a city that's recession-hit
Stress niggas could flex metal with peddle to rake pennies in

Time: 2:57
When my niggas off drugs, they don't think right
It's a recession man the hood fucked up
If a nigga ain't trippin' got the heat in the club

Time: 0:22
After two classics another stripe up on my arm baby
it's a blessin' to blow a hundred thou in a recession
With no second guessin,

Time: 1:36
Boy, was I getting so vain
I saw the recession around Victoria Station
I'm fit and working again

Time: 0:05
Since this recession I'm losing my baby,
Because the times are getting so hard

Time: 1:18
I never thought that I would fall in regression
The music business now we call it recession
We bawl and we stressing 'cause y'all is divesting

Time: 2:31
With that billfold in his hand?
Recession time, you cry, we cry
Everyone wants Selassie I

Time: 0:30
Just to make sure the food gets bought
Governments threaten you with recession
Then they threaten you with war
