The previous post, Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times ( https://lemmy.world/post/25620809 ), refers to certain types of times. The same goes for this song. (Though that’s hard to say for sure as the lyrics are just repetitions of the phrase “Hard Times”.)
Here’s an 8:39 version of the same song:
https://archive.org/details/01HUMANLEAGUEHardTimes/01+-+HUMAN+LEAGUE+-+Hard+times.mp3
Oh, cool. I’ve never heard this one.