Listen to me

Just hear me out

If I could have your attention

Just quieten down for a voice in the crowd

I get so confused and I don't understand

I know you feel the same way you've always wanted to say

But you don't get the chance

Just a voice in the crowd



I don't know the score anymore

It's not clear anymore

I can't tell right from wrong anymore

I just don't understand

I was sitting here thinking of exchanging a new world for old

Like changing the channels on TV

Or the dirt that we stand in to gold



When I was young

My father told me just bad guys die

At the time just a little white lie

It was one of the first but it hurt me the most

And the truth stung like tears in my eyes

That even the good guys must die

There's no reasoning no crimes and I never knew why

Even now it still makes me cry



If there's somebody up there, could they throw me down a line

Just a little helping hand, just a little understanding

Just some answers to the questions that surround me now

If there's somebody up there, could they throw me down a line

Just a little guiding light to tell wrong from right

Just some answers to the questions that I'm asking you

I keep a vigil in a wilderness of mirrors

Where nothing here is ever what it seems

You stand so close but you never understand it

For all that we see is not all that it seems, am I blind?



And you sit there and talk revolution

But can you tell me just who's in command?

When you tell me the forces we're fighting

Then I'll join you and gladly make plans

But for now only our t-shirts cry freedom

And our voices are gagged by our greed

Our minds are harnessed by knowledge

By the hil