And so we say:
We ain't got life
Don't want a cardboard cut-out
Don't want a plastic knife
Now I know: time can march
With it's charging feet
Now I know: words
Are only cheap
There's gonna be a burn out
All around this town
The South is up
But the North is down
There's gonna be a killing
Of a woman and a man
They're trying to feed that child
Without a coin in their hand
And so we say:
Have you no use
For 8 million hands
And the power of youth?
Now I know: time can march
With it's charging feet
Now I know: words
Are only cheap
There's gonna be a burn out
All around this town
The South is up
But the North is down
There's gonna be a killing
Of a woman and a man
Trying to feed that child
Without a coin in their hand
There's gonna be a burn out!
And so we say:
We ain't digging no graves
We're digging a foundation
For a future to be made
Now I know that time can march
With it's charging feet
Now I know: words
Are only cheap
There's gonna be a burn out
All around this town
The South is up
But the North is down
There's gonna be a killing
Of a woman and a man
Trying to feed that child
Without a coin in their hand
There's gonna be a burn out!