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Intro

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

And you should pr obably save your breath

Your feelings of disgust, your thinly veiled mistrust

My friends have lectured me to dea th

The people on the news predicted he would los e

And this was never part of a nybody's thoughts

But something must have gave, o r 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 p ointing out the flaws

Accusing us of sabotage and fr acturing the cause

With fingers pointing everywhere an d flapping of the jaws

I just avert my eyes and take the abuse

In social situations I keep m ostly to myself

'Cause no one wants to hear about my f ailing mental health

And party conversation, I just k eep it on the shelf

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

And now I'm he re

Stopped at the red light

Watching the h eadlights

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 slowi ng down

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I listen to the Clash, I separate my trash

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

But nothing that I do is ever getting through

And I just wonder if no body understands at all

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

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

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

For coked-up funnymen and e veryone 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 r ed light

Watching for he adlights

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 s alvation

The indication is that no one really feels like slowi ng down

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