Play It All Night Long Lyrics

Lyric discussion by 3ChordSpeed 

Cover art for Play It All Night Long lyrics by Warren Zevon

To me it sounds like the moral of the song is something on the lines of “were in bad times, how are you gona go play the happy crap right now.” As to imply escapism doesn’t work for Zevon, which would explain the tone of most of his songs. Regardless of the band in the song.