There's a panic on the streets

A reputation on a line

A revolution every minute

Nothing's gonna keep time

Ask why

Ask why



The president's understudy

Fluffing his cues

He sure must have the self-deception blues

Ask why

Ask why



Ask why

No-one ever looks at you straight in the face

Ask why

You're never at home but you're so outta place

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Ask why



The record's gotten scratchy

And there's dust in every groove

And the needle keeps on jumping

Everytime we make a move

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Ask why



They think they've caught the killer

And they kill him on first sight

Another kid gets murdered

Later on that night

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Ask why



Ask why

The truth is always hiding between the lines

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We're living it up in kaleidoscope time

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Ask why



No-one trusts the enemy

Right in our midst

Don't know what you did now

You're on the hit list



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No-one even cared to look up at the sky

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The world's photogenic and you're camera shy

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The world was in debt the day it died

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Life is so short and you might as well try to

Ask why