living -- if you can call this living thinking will it ever go away? dying -- there's all these people dying i'm conscious of it every single day [chorus] who's gonna be the next to go? walking in a new kind of fear laughing at all the people here asking how could this happen here? taking my choices away [chorus] under the gun well it's been a month, standing in the shadows under the gun well it's been a month, hiding from the sun parking lots all up and down the interstate and on the news it's a great debate back to the normal? it will have to wait
the man on the street -- he doesn't know my name but I am sure we're not at all the same man on the street -- ou know he looks like me but he'll never know all the things i've seen
see him and there's no enmity -- sometimes there's jealousy but would you be him? I don't think so no a hair is out of place -- he sets the pace and he's a step ahead of me
the man on the street -- he doesn't look at me and if he did I wonder what he sees he might be kind; he might be alright are his concerns so far away from mine?
see him and there's no problem -- thought he always looks so cold but would you be him? I don't think so not a stich out of place -- he sets the pace and he's just a step ahead he keeps a step ahead of me
he lives as expected secure and protected the world won't affect him and so I reject him now
I feel so different, though I might no look so you can wear the costume, but do you march in time? there's so many targets in the world to see feel the dirt of rebellion beneath your feet!
somewhere in a cold jail cell is a man doing time, in a living hell for perjury but it's o.k. for billy somewhere is a young girl her life is forever swirled she's out of luck but it's o.k. for billy and so many pawns will fall for every king's stone wall I believe that we should strive for more obstruction, deception and still they blindly support him they've lowered the standards that they could've raised it's such a shame this is the new breed and i'm standing on my own I remember when there were democrats who stood tall and were cool cats now all I see are more suits and ties double standards, equivocate but even kings can get checkmate just be honest and show this king the door some say that it's just lies, but I think it's just trust and I believe that we should strive for more if he were in the g.o.p., you know that instantly they'd be lining up to fire but now they lowered the standards that they could've raised it's such a shame but this is the new breed for every little kid today who wonders why this one's o.k. well, kid these are double standards and this is the new breed and i'm standing on my own and maybe it's naive for someone to believe that there's a better way to run the show today but somewhere is a man or woman political in stripe whoe doesn't want to fall in line who'll say what's wrong is right and it's time to put it right the king should lose his crown this time who has the guts to say this thing is not o.k. for the sake of kings to come but now they lowered the standards that they could've raised it's such a shame this is the new breed for every little kid today who wonders why this one's o.k. well, kid these are double standards and this is the new breed this is the new breed well i'm standing on my own
sitting in my room just wasting time i've spent my whole life asking questions and when the answers come they hurt or wound I don't know what it takes to bind it I don't know what it takes to find it is there such a thing as piece of mind? on the telephone I hear your voice and I wonder what's behind it and in your eyes the blankest beauty I wonder what there is inside it I don't know what it takes to find you i'll give pieces of my mind i'm always mixed up every time pathetic ramblings, this I know welcome to this bitter show this poetry is not romantic and anger is not a tonic painting on a smile so you'll never know just how deeply your words hurt me and boys don't cry this I know i've been socialized to hide it