Hello girls and boys   As you sit in your carpeted bedrooms   With your stereos on and on      Playin' with those hundred dollar toys   Built to occupy your minds   So you don't notice your future's are gone      And as you race on through the streets tonight   Lookin' for some lonely lover to hold you tight   You think that the world is alright      Well, you're out of touch, you're out of time   You're gonna crack, you're fragile regulated minds   As you're headin' on to no kind of conclusion      Go on, let 'em run your lives   Watch 'em as they cut your throat   With their parental carving knife      Go on, let 'em run your lives   Are you too young to see   Or just too old to fight?      They've taken the energy away from you   They haven't taught you enough to deal   With the ordeal you must be goin' through      Yeah, but look at this now      They've left you the schools   They've left you the government but they're all fallin' down   Don't forget to make the past due payments      And in this world of uncertainties, you can be certain that   You must kiss the ass of the authorities   And kiss you will if you want to survive      You don't have to look too hard to see   That there just ain't no free rides   Hell it takes a real man to survive      Go on, let 'em run your lives   Watch 'em as they cut your throat   With their parental carving knife      Go on, let 'em run your lives   Are you too young to see   Or just too old to fight?      Well, Jay Dee is locked in his soul, some kinda hotel   Well, he's burnin' inside   He shakes shakes shakes, all through the night      And little Ruda Juda is passed out on the floor   She's just so damn stupid, won't somebody   Take away her gun and show her the door   Show her the door, show her that door's open      And me I'm so misunderstood, but I'm still alive   And my eyes are open wide to the fact   That the world just will lie and it'll kick you right in the face      Go on, let 'em run your lives   Watch 'em as they cut your throat   With their parental carving knife      Go on, let 'em run your lives   Are you too young to see   Or just too old to fight?      Hey, are you too young to see   Or just too old to fight?   Do we have to fight the rest of our lives?