Let Them Run Your Lives

[Verse 1]

Hello, girls and boys

As you sit in your carpeted bedrooms

With your stereos on and on

Playin' with those hundred dollar toys

Built to occupy your minds

So you don't notice your futures are gone

And as you race on through the streets tonight

Lookin' for some lonely lover to hold you tight

You think that the world is alright

Well, you're out of touch, you're out of time

You're gonna crack your fragile regulated minds

As you're headin' on to no kind of conclusion

[Chorus]

Go on, let 'em run your lives

Watch 'em as they cut your throat

With their parental carving knife

Go on, let 'em run your lives

Are you too young to see

Or just too old to fight?

[Verse 2]

They've taken the energy away from you

They haven't taught you enough to deal

With the ordeal you must be goin' through

Yeah, but look at this now, they've left you the schools

And they've left you the government

But they're all fallin' down

Don't forget to make the past due payments

And in this world of uncertainties

You can be certain that you must kiss the ass of the authorities

And kiss you will if you want to survive

You don't have to look that hard to see

That there just ain't no free rides

Hell, it takes a real man to survive

[Chorus]

Go on, let 'em run your lives

Watch 'em as they cut your throat

With their parental carving knife

Go on, let 'em run your lives

Are you too young to see

Or just too old to fight?

[Verse 3]

Well, James has locked up his soul some kinda hotel

Well, he's burnin' inside

He shakes, shakes, shakes all through the night

And little Rudy Judy is passed out on the floor

She's just so damn stupid

Won't somebody take away her gun

And show her the door, show her the door

Show her that door's open?

And me I'm so misunderstood, but I'm still alive

And my eyes are open wide

To the fact that the world will lie

And it'll kick you right in the face

[Chorus]

Go on, let 'em run your lives

Watch 'em as they cut your throat

With their parental carving knife

Go on, let 'em run your lives

Are you too young to see

Or just too old to fight?

[Post-Chorus]

Hey, are you too young to see

Or just too old to fight?

Do we have to fight the rest of our lives?