[Verse 1]
Too many empty heads
Cold hearts, eyes dead
Inert and inbred
Drugs, guns, and hot lead
Pierced, spike,d and tattooed
Religious yahoo
Hot tempers, cheap booze
Nothing here but bad news
The center can't hold now
We don't have the know-how
Throw it in the hoosegow
Jesus coming anyhow
Booted up and head shaved
Merciless and enraged
Broke and brooding ingrates
Faithless, cunning inmates
Ferocious looking braggarts
Vacuous and hell-bent
Where are the plain folk
The charitable and decent?
Where are the love songs?
I wonder where the joy went

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[Verse 2]
Too many empty heads
Cold hearts, eyes dead
Inert and inbred
Drugs, guns, and hot lead
Pierced, spike,d and tattooed
Religious yahoo
Hot tempers, cheap booze
Nothing here but bad news
The center can't hold now
We don't have the know-how
Throw it in the hoosegow
Jesus coming anyhow
Booted up and head shaved
Merciless and enraged
Last days, last chance
Too late to turn around
If this is all in plain sight
What about the Underground?
Where are the plain folk
The charitable and decent?
Where are the love songs?
I wonder where the joy went

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