Limited in sex, they dare
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Private reasons great or small
Yet you know there is no answer fit
That can do what's never been done
For the wise men and the fools
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
Suicide remarks are torn
It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
Meantime life outside goes on all around you
False goals, I scuff at pettiness which plays so rough
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
Say, "Okay, I have had enough, what else can you show me?"
Made everything from toy guns that spark
With a killer's pride, security
While others say don't hate nothing at all, except hatred
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
So don't fear if you hear
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
As some warn victory, some downfall
It blows the minds most bitterly
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Plays wasted words proves to warn
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing
To satisfy insure you not to quit
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him
On anyone that lives in a vault
That he not busy being born is busy dying
Into thinking you're the one
That they do not respect in any degree
Goodness hides behind its gates
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
To push fake morals, insult and stare
Alone you stand with nobody near
But even the President of the United States
To make all that should be killed to crawl
That can win what's never been won
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it
But rather get you down in the hole that he's in
Although the masters make the rules
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
And if my thought dreams could be seen
An' all the rules of the road have been lodged
For them that must obey authority
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Won't fall upon them naturally
But I mean no harm nor put fault
Sometimes must have to stand naked
You follow, find yourself at war
Our preachers preach of evil fates
Nothing more than something they invest in
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Old lady judges watch people in pairs
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
A question in your nerves is lit
You discover that you'd just be one more person crying
From the fool's gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
Eclipses both the sun and moon
That somebody thinks they really found you
Obscenity, who really cares propaganda, all is phony
For them that think death's honesty
Kick my legs to crash it off
Speak jealously of them that are free
You lose yourself, you reappear
Do what they do just to be
Cares not to come up any higher
While them that defend what they cannot see
To keep it in your mind and not forget
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
Life sometimes must get lonely
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
That it is not he or she or them or it that you belong to
Tell nothing except who to idolize and say, "God bless him"
As human gods aim for their mark
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Advertising signs that con you
To strict party platform ties
A foreign sound to your ear
Social clubs in drag disguise
While some on principles baptized
While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Temptation's page flies out the door
You feel to moan but unlike before
To understand you know too soon, there is no sense in trying
