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Intro

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Before you say a word I should tell you that I've heard it all before

 And you should probably save your breath

 Your feelings of disgust, your thinly veiled mistrust

 My friends have lectured me to death

The people on the news predicted he would lose

 And this was never part of anybody's thoughts

 But something must have gave, or someone must have caved

 'Cause now he's up there and they're calling all the shots

 And now most everyone's been taking turns at pointing out the flaws

 Accusing us of sabotage and fracturing the cause

 With fingers pointing everywhere and flapping of the jaws

 I just avert my eyes and take the abuse

In social situations I keep mostly to myself

 'Cause no one wants to hear about my failing mental health

 And party conversation, I just keep it on the shelf

 'Cause I've discovered it's of very little use

And now I'm here

 Stopped at the red light

 Watching the headlights

 And what if it's all a trick that I fell for

 It's happened before more times than I would care to own up to

 And I don't know about you

 But I've been getting so tired

 Of holding out my thumb for salvation

 The indication is that no one really feels like slowing down

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I listen to the Clash, I separate my trash

 I'm pretty vocal when I feel like things are getting out of hand

 But nothing that I do is ever getting through

 And I just wonder if nobody understands at all

The revolution won't be televised 'cause television's free

 And no one's really sure just what the price is going to be

 We're slowly going broke, our scene's become a joke

 For coked-up funnymen and everyone but me

I like to think that what we had was more than just a fad

 That it was rooted in some bigger kind of truth

 But friends just shake their heads, make jokes about the Dead

 And tell me that they used to think the same things in their youth

I'm stopped at the red light

 Watching for headlights

 And what if it's all a trick that I fell for

 It's happened before more times than I would care to own up to

 And I don't know about you

 But I've been getting so tired

 Of holding out my thumb for salvation

 The indication is that no one really feels like slowing down

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