Standard (EADGBE)

All these inanimate places feel like they're changing

The kids all lined up on the wall like they're ready to die

These arms are sending it's like they just rearrange them

We were caged up like animals, questioned and ready to cry

Cause I was just 13 when I got my first take of danger

Standing by the church, I had a bottle and a pen in my hand

Oh I said "Father, I'm sorry. I just don't know what to do with this anger"

This behavior is correctable, I know this wasn't part of your plan

But little fucks like us, we were always receiving instruction

And you could burn off our clothes, you could wash out the ink and the dye

But you can't look me in the eye and say you don't feel like a little destruction

And the kids are lined up on the wall and they're ready to die

And the kids are lined up on the wall and they're ready to die

All these days just seem like they're getting longer

The view from our room is a gloomy and overcast grey

The weakness we left behind seems to be getting stronger

I swear there's something in the air, and I don't know what anyone could say

Cause I saw the news this morning, there was another

Boy by the side of the road, he had a gun in his hand

I thought "What could you say to make it ever make sense to his mother?"

Oh ma'am, he was excitable, we were just trying to make him a man

But the day will come when it falls like a cheap house of plastic

And the cards that were dealt, will be tossed like a storm in the sky

Cause you can only lie so long before you get something drastic

And the kids are lined up on the wall and they're ready to die

And the kids are lined up on the wall and they're ready to die