Clapping our hands when we're out on the weekend
Stomping our feet with the people we believe in
Dogs howling at the moon holding out for pain
Waiting for the day they leave their towns
And make their names
But ain't no remedy to recommend
Hard times in the hearts of young men

Speaking our minds but nobody cares
You know some people got it so good it just ain't fair
No money in our pockets
We live tough we die tough but it ain't our lives to choose
Cause every road we cross another dead end
Hard times in the heart of young men

The president ain't got our cause
He's selling souls and breaking laws
Telling lies for the applause
Ain't no future for our kind
So we waste our hours and dull our minds
Walk with hope down clouded lines
In these our hard times

And me and my kids got a gift for the man
With our souls on fire and hearts in our hands
A fist in the face of any mouth that would tell us no
Ain't no time left for faking you know we got to go go go
Before there's no flag left here to defend
Hard times in the hearts of young men
				

The time has come for you to look around
Remember every moment that you found
The best way to say yes is to say no
When all you got to do is say it so
But when it's wrong, dead wrong

It's easy just too easy to deny
And never be the one to compromise
When everyone's a friendly face to you
Tell me what you going to do
Cause when it's wrong it's wrong, dead wrong

Did you sell your soul from sleep cause that ain't right
Did you think your peace would last you through the night
Is it worth the time it takes to say hello
Tell me cause I really got to know
Cause when it's wrong it's wrong, dead wrong
				

After all your dreams are done and paid for
When there's nowhere left to run and nobody left to stay for
Though I hate to be the one to bear such news
Seems like you're set to be the only one to lose

Little one how can it be you hurt yourself but do not see
Everything you're breathing for will let you down
And leave you sore

I was bound to the bed post
I was doing what I could to make a change
Caught a sigh of indifference
When certain feeling stuck so strange
While it was my wish to keep you from such pain
I regret to say my efforts were in vain

You're sad sad
Can't go without
You do it to yourself
So you can save your doubt

Little one one how can it be you hurt yourself but do not see
Everything you're breathing for will let you down
And leave you sore
Little one how can it be you hurt yourself but do not see
Your friends will hang you out to dry they'll scrape your
Knees and make you cry

Everything you're breathing for will let you down
And leave you sore
Little one own how can it be you hurt yourself and do not see
				

The kids in town don't care about the rules you've been making
They only feel the beating of their hearts
They're all hip to the lives that you've been taking
Where you take them
They'll take their time but they'll take you apart
But tonight the kids ain't alright

The alley cats brace their fists for destruction Lord
For it seems to me that they've been warned
They are the lives of your construction
Where you touch them
Out of your hands their burdens born
But tonight no the kids ain't alright

Tell me what's your fascination
With money greed and all you've done
And when you reach your destination
Will it be worth it all your fun

And tonight no the kids ain't alright
				

I can see your face call it breaking me alright
Pretty soon your heart will be gone
You can have the best of me
I can take the rest of me
Why are we growing apart
Ripping ot the guts where there's something to save
Can you take more take more all I ask for
Can you make sure make sure I come after
Passing out your plastic that couldn't care couldn't care
Tell your turning back that I'd trade you for no one
When I was an ofphan and you were a crow
I couldn't believe you were saying it's so
So I held out my arms like love was such a laugh
But I'd follow forgiveness back to the sun
If you and I were the only ones
To stay or how is it sopposed to be now

I can see the bones of indifference it's sickening
Sticking through the side of the fool I became
Another photograph to kiss me in the morning
How can I call you back you don't treat me the same
Can you fake more fake more childish laughter
Can you make sure make sure I come after
Lipstick on the glass left to figure out figure out
Packed your pretty promise it's the gift that you gave
When you were a daughter and I was scab
And I never remembered feeling so bad
You pulled my hair and I smashed your telephone
You're set in your ways and not changing for me
And I said it so clear still you didn't agree
You just left it so chance as if some way it's free
And it failed so how is it supposed to be now

Starting to see this is getting us nowhere
Hurt from the hope that you held in your hand

Can you take more take more all I ask for
Can you make sure make sure I come after
				

You're so quiet baby but you're so mean
Sooner or later you'll have to come clean
That you're an angry young girl
You're so calm you're so smart
I held your hand you stole my heart
Cause you're an angry young girl
And it won't be long 'til they sing along
And it goes

You're an eagle but you will crow
Maybe the devil but all I know
Is you're an angry young girl
You're so calm but you're so cruel
Shout me out loud
Cause you're an angry young girl
And it won't be long 'til they sing along
And it goes

You're so quiet but you're so mean
Sooner or later you'll have to come clean
That you're an angry young girl
And it won't be long 'til they sing along
And it goes
				

Come on people get together
Cause you know the time is coming
The wolves beneath you on the prowl
Are crowded round you shouting something
And it ain't easy to find a friend inside another fascination
But it's much harder to find a lover in another observation

And oh I gost that feeling once again
That everything around them is gonna end

So who was watching when their soured souls
Came marching right down through here
And made believe they were a carnival of crows
Without any fear
Threw their glasses to the floor
Free of consequence for cowards
And kicked up their final daisy
Far before their final hour

Now everybody gather round me
For another story to tell
The angry clouds on the horizon
Seas around you starting to swell
Thunder's going to fall
And the rain is going to fall
And then the first will be the last
Can you hear their children call, I know you can
				

In the time I chased the wolves I was a juvenile baby
I cut my nine on any friend or foe
I took my chance on rumor's dance and ruined them lady
I mash them down wherever they may roam
Cause I'm rude and real hard headed

My clan is tough my face is rough from weather and booze
My game is stiff so you know I never lose
The women call and when they do I comfort them
I love so long no creature could contend
Cause I'm rude and real hard headed

Pray to God for forgiveness
For all that I have done
Pray to Mary for mercy
That I may not run
The handman's noose is falling
In the crisp autumn air
See them sway from the gallows baby
As my soul did prepare

Cause I'm rude and real hard headed
				

Safe in the arms that hold your every move
They've been waiting here for you
You've been weighing down the time
In a place they tried to forget
In a face they'd gorw to regret
They pulled down the shades
Crawling Lord they're crawling
Would you catch them where they're falling
Do you hear them when they're calling

The water down here swells with the seeds of decay
Through the years
Have the sins of our fathers swept our love
For each other away
In the tide of tears

So as snakes in suits conduct their interviews
Bodies floating down the avenue
And it's our sickness to blame
Ain't no party blue or red
Where innocence for naught is shed
It's our choices it's our voices to be heard
Drowning Lord they're drowning
And the good Lord is frowning
The dark clouds are surrounding
We must decide

But while there's life there's hope for change
As a culture we've got to rearrange
Ain't no blind eye left to turn
Lying Lord they're lying
And the children keep dying
Their mothers are crying
You know we should be trying
				

Can I cut this fairytale and treat you how I please
Fake it for the fun of it and leave you on your knees
Tear your little heart where everyone can see
Place it right beside you and ask you not to bleed
How could I care for
I believed you temporary
Hanging out's got me feeling for no one

Oh how I let you down
I could count your tears just to stay around
My favorite heart to break

If in a breath of bravery a turn should come in quiet
I'd push it down a staircase cause what else would be right
Then kiss you on your forehead hold your pretty hand
Leave you for the moment not knowing where you stand
How could I ask for taking me so seriously
I can see you've been waiting for hours

Oh how I let you down
I could count your tears just to stay around
My favorite heart to break

This is so sudden
I could tell you I need everything
You hoped I would as well
Then turn it around I can see I can see
With every shake of your breath you're believing me more
				

When you're wasted all the time
You ain't doing yourself no good you better change your mind
Cause you ain't fooling nobody round here
And all the friends you ever had have all long disappeared
I'm a mean little man
But I do the best I can
Woman I try try try try
Yet you still testify
But after all is said and done
You've got to take the bullet out the gun

You've been hurt now baby
You've been used
I can see it in the way you hang your head
Oh how you've been abused
Is it sad for you like it's sad for me
I could do the best to hold your hand
But you've got to try and agree
And I'm a mean little man
But I do the best I can
Woman I try try try
Yet you're going to still testify
But after all is said and done
You've got to take the bullet out the gun
				

I been thinking for a while now,
How you had me still.
Playing with my mind, now darling,
Hope you got your fill.

'Cause this train is leaving,
It's rolling down the track.
Singing "Ain't no turnin' back."

Now a simple man, it's true.
Givin' all I had to you.
Really don't leave much for me,
Sorry Woman, I had to let you be.

'Cause this train is leaving,
It's rolling down the track.
Singing "Ain't no turnin' back."
Singing "Ain't no turnin' back."


One day you're going to realize
I ain't the one to blame.
I see how you critisize and curse
my very name,
now baby that's alright.

'Cause I got better things to do than be your whipped boy,
So you can say what you want
(???)
brings no tougher joy back in your whole life.
'Cause it don't matter what I do,
There just ain't no pleasing you.

Just say it how you mean it.
Just tell us how you feel.
Whoa, just say it how you mean it,
Just tell us...

Hope one day you'll find a man that
Can keep you satisfied,
Have yourself a mess of kids
And a real comfortable life

This train is leaving,
It's rolling downt the track,
Singing "Ain't no turnin' back".

Still I really wish you well,
'Spite of all the lies you tell.
Can't Keep No Good Boy Down,
Woman when you gonna look around.

This train is leaving,
It's rolling down the track,
Singing "Ain't no turnin' back".

This train is leaving,
It's rolling down the track,
Singing "Ain't no turnin' back".
Singing "Ain't no turnin' back".
Singing "Ain't no turnin' back".
Singing "Ain't no turnin' back".