Superman was killed in Dallas   There's no love left in the palace   Someone took the Beatles' lead guitar   Have another Chivas Regal   You're 12 years old and sex is legal   Your parents don't know where or who you are      Used to be the hero of the ballgame   Took the time to shake the loser's hand   Used to be that failure only meant you didn't try   In a world where people gave a damn      Great big wars in little places   Look at all those frightened faces   But don't come here, we just don't have the room   Love thy neighbours wife and daughter   Cleanse your life with Holy water   We don't need to bathe, we've got perfume      Used to be a knight in shining armour   Didn't have to own a shiny car   Dignity and courage were the measure of a man   Not the drugs he needs to hide the scar      Can your teacher read, does your preacher pray   Does your president have soul   Have you heard a real good ethnic joke today   Mama took to speed and daddy ran away   But you mustn't lose control   Let's cut the class, I got some grass   The kids are wild we just can't tame 'em   Do we have the right to blame them      We fed them all our indecisions   We wrecked their minds with television   But what the hell, they're too young to feel pain   But I believe that love can save tomorrow   Believe the truth can make us free   Someone tried to say it, then we nailed Him to a cross   I guess it's still the way it used to be