No time to play At seventeen I cross the way With crazy dream At seventeen I had a dream I'd go to school To learn it all I've been no fool I
You know when I'm coming home You know when I'm coming to bed You know when I tell you that I love you I mean every word I said You know I'm a bit too
On day zero my mother was expecting the worst And out of my father's ass I was born, feet first "Oh, no." The most horrendous piece of feces ever forced
I've talked the talk, I've walked the walk It's taken ten fucking years For them to see I don't need their approval I've paid the piper, I've stayed
Nation's kept in marbled, a face of yet to be decayed We kept sick and sorrow, we don't live to betray Well I don't wanna see your animals And I don'
Now when I first met you I was rollin' along Just a bar room crooner Singin' heartbreak songs And I supposed I could never get next to you But you seemed
they're gonna clean up your looks with all the lies in the books to make a citizen out of you because they sleep with a gun and keep an eye on you, son
Looking around the house Hidden behind the window and the door Searching for signs of life But there's nobody home Well, maybe I'm just too sure Or maybe
You cleaned out your room And under your bed Lay a picture long forgotten With a hand to your head You sigh out loud As a memory rushes over and buries
Can you be so warm? Can you know what I feel? But it's the way you move your hands And it's the way you understand And that's the reason that I'm asking
Where have you gone, my Rosealia? Into the crowd he'll never find you If you walk real fast and you stay down low So many times so many chances This one
Down by the dock, hot blood in the sun The body lays up against the reeds The locals said the man had it coming And it's time someone put him six feet
Listen to them fight Hear your mother cry, weekend at your Dad's They don't know what they do to you Teenager, teenager Wrap yourself in black Listen
Well she believes that I'd be better off without her And she believes in me Well she believes that time can make things right, yea And I wanna believe
Well, there's a feeling in the air Just like a Friday afternoon Yeah, you can go there if you want Though it fades too soon So go on, let it be If there
Hey, you've got a lot of nerve to show your face around here Hey, you've got a lot of nerves to dredge up all my fears Well, I wish I could shake some
Headin' out your heart beatin' in your head Ridin' on the Texas wind Raise your feet as you cross the state line Wakin' up the Mesa sun and the sky All
Will you fight, for the cause? Can you teach the savage mind? Their ways are wrong, help them see What they want and what they need? And if we have to