All around you slow decay   Wanna feel the sun of the new day   Forget the chances that you lost   Shedding innocence like falling dust      All the things you learned too young   The songs you knew but you never sung   You waited a long time, you wasted more   Forgotten what you waited for      Excuse me ma'am for being so rude   Feels like 100 years of solitude   But my mind is numb and my mouth's okay   And you can listen or just walk away      No solutions built to last   Just your petty scores to settle fast   The N M E meant nothing to you   And the maker, well the maker of who      Your Walkman generation   In search of sweet sedation   While forests choke under a 'lever sky   And the Exxon birds will never fly      Excuse me ma'am for being so rude   Feels like 100 years of solitude   But my mind is numb and my mouth's okay   And you can listen or just walk away      We tried, we cried, we fell, we lied   This life's like one white knuckle ride   Crack babies born too young   And L.A. kids who will dance to the gun      Forget this so called dirt of mine   It's just the dust and diesel of the passing time   It's all around you it's a tragedy, look   So forget the cover just read the book      Excuse me ma'am for being so rude   Feels like 100 years of solitude   But my mind is numb and my mouth's okay   And you can listen or just walk away