I grew up in Orange County In the shadow of a mouse Watched the sky light up From the rooftop of my house Things seemed so subtle Off Katella Avenue
Came to a point, do I laugh or cry? Came to a point, do I quit or do I try? I called out, do you even exist? Why do you ask, came a voice from the missed
He said, I see the dawn as a fading looking glass I'm on an island, alone in the mass I can't swim and I'm sinking fast I have no future, no connection
Ten years have passed Ten years have passed Since the guns of September Ten years have passed Don't cry, don't cry Don't cry, it's thunder Don't cry
Bombers in the sky No one's asking why We have to duck and cover When the bullets start to fly When the bullets start to fly We have to duck and hide
A single shot then silence springs An alarm that blew my whole world apart Infection spread like a hornet sting The mark of Cain on a bullet Shot through
Nothing original The sin I wear Unholy wound This open tear All of god's children Would truly understand The midnight flight The crimson sand Let it
Magic kingdom, right at Main Shattered link, food chain Tomorrowland in a plastic can Monsanto: your house of the future In a working class Alabama
Ten minutes til' twelve o'clock, That's when the hammer drops, Sienide in the chamber, Until the humvee stops, The last man (Dying man), In a dying
This is a pointless teenage anthem About how great things used to be The kind that tugs your heartstrings Like rhythmic atrophy A pointless teenage
Drive-by suicide bombers all over In our front yards and in our bedrooms Biochemical warfare, anthrax and smallpox Stuff it all back in the toy box
Within these walls Within these walls is pain and strife Within these walls it's yours tonight Within these walls you'll sacrifice Within these walls
Tell me something I don't know About discretion Manic deception Oh hari kari here we go I don't know No, I don't know How to let it go To where the wind
