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