But can you still walk back to happiness
Growing in the hearts of its population
To deliver us from liberty and keep us from peace
When you've nowhere left to run?
Into believing what is good and what is right
Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
You may be worshiping the temples of mammon
We're being sedated by the gasoline fumes
And if they send in the special police
Can you sense the fear and the hatred
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Open your eyes, open your imagination
Open your eyes, open your imagination
Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information
Then won't the words sit ill upon their tongues
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Or lost in the prisons of religion
Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information
And hypnotized by the satellites
And our youth, oh youth, are being seduced
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
When they tell us justice is being done
By the greedy hands of politics and half truths
And that freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun
