Where are all the stupid people from?    And how'd they get to be so dumb?    Bred on purple mountain range   Feed amber waves of grains   To lesser human beings, zero feelings      Blame it on   Human nature, mans destiny (mans destiny)   Blame it on the greediocracy (greediocracy)   Fear of god   The fear of change   The fear of truth      Add the bill of rights, subtract the wrongs   There's no answers   Memorize and sing star spangled songs   When the questions   Aren't ever asked   Is anybody learning from the past?    We're living in united stagnation      Father what have I done?    I took that 22   A gift to me from you   To bed with me each night   Kept it clean   Polished it well   Cherished every cartridge, every shell      Down, by the creek, under brush, under dirt   There's a carcass of my second kill   Down, by the park, under stone, under pine   There's a carcass of my brother william   Brother where, have you gone to?    I swear, I never thought I could   I see so many times   They told me to shoot straight   Don't pull the trigger, squeeze   That will insure a kill   A kill is what you want   A kill is why we breed      The christians love their guns   The church and nra   Pray for their salvations   Prey on the lower faiths      The story book's been read   And every line believed   Curriculum's been set   Logic is a threat   Reason searched and seized      Jerry spent some time in michigan   A twenty year vacation, after all he had a dime   A dime is worth a lot more in detroit   A dime in california, a twenty dollar fine      Jerry only stayed a couple months   It's hard to enjoy yourself while bleeding out the ass   Asphyxiation is simple and fast   It beats seventeen fun years of being someones bitch      Don't think (stay)   Drink your wine (home)   Watch the fire burn (be)   His problems not mine (safe)   Just be that model citizen      I wish I had a schilling   (for each senseless killing)   For every senseless killing   I'd buy a government   America's for sale   And you can get a good deal on it   (a good deal on it)   And make a healthy profit   Or maybe, tear it apart   Start with assumption   That a million people are smart   Smarter than one      Serotonin's gone   She gave up, drifted away   Sara fled, thought process gone   She left her answering machine on   The greeting left spoken sincere   Messages no one will ever hear      Ten thousand messages a day   A million more transmissions lay   Victims of the laissez faire   Ten thousand voices, a hundred guns   A hundred decibels turns to one   One bullet, one empty head   Now with serotonin gone      The man who used to speak   Performs a cute routine   Feel a little patronized   Don't feel bad   They found a way inside your head   And you feel a bit misled   It's not that they don't care, yeah      The television's put a thought inside your head   Llike a barry manilow, jingle   I'd like, to teach the world to sing   In perfect harmony   A symphonic blank stare, yeah   It doesn't make you care (make you care)   Not designed to make you care (make you care)   They're betting you won't care (you won't...)      Place a wager on your greed   A wager on your pride   Why try to beat them when, a million others tried?       We are the whore   Intellectually spayed   We are the queer   Dysfunctionally raised      One more pill to kill the pain   One more pill to kill the pain   One more pill to kill the pain   Living through conformity      One more prayer to keep me safe   One more prayer to keep us warm   One more prayer to keep us safe   There's gonna be a better place      Lost the battle, lost the war   Lost the things worth living for   Lost the will to win the fight   One more pill to kill the pain      Na na na na na   La na na na na   Na na na na na   Na na na na na      The going get tough, the tough get debt   Don't pay attention, pay the rent   Next of kins pay for your sins   A little faith should keep us safe      Save us   The human, existence   Is failing, resistance   Essential, the future   Written off, the odds are   Astronomically against us   Only moron and genius   Would fight a losing battle   Against the super ego   When giving in is so damn comforting      And so we go, on with our lives   We know the truth, but prefer lies   Lies are simple, simple is bliss   Why go against tradition when we can   Admit defeat, live in decline   Be the victim of our own design   The status quo, built on suspect   Why would anyone stick out their neck?       Fellow members   Club "we've got ours"   I'd like to introduce you to our host   He's got his, and I've got mine   Meet the decline      We are the queer   We are the whore   Ammunition   In the class war   We are worker   We love our queen   We sacrifice   We're soilent green      We are the queer   We are the whore   Ammunition   In the class war