she was in the back yard   digging out a trench   praying for her fathers gun, again   all the holy weight they   layed across your back   one hundred years we wasted   staying there for life      AND YOU CAN'T SAY   THAT WE ARE WHAT YOU THOUGHT   OR WHAT YOU HAD HOPED WE'D BE   BUT WHAT WE ARE   OH, WE'RE NOT THE SAME, NO   AS WHAT YOU ARE   AND YOU CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY   TAKE THAT FROM US!!!!      here we built a new face   60 miles away   painted it the one shade you could never fake   mother kick your crutches, out from under me   I was still a sandstorm cutting at your feet   God was in my backyard tearing down my fence   calling out our fathers name again   we fixed him to the floor, covered up his ears    spending all our lifetime shaking off our fears      AND YOU CAN'T BLAME, NO YOU WON'T   NO YOU CAN'T BLAME   YOU CAN'T BLAME THAT ON US   WHAT YOU THOUGHT   NO YOU CAN'T   WHAT YOU ARE   YOU CAN'T BLAME THAT ON US!!      ohhhh, but I could be, something else, entirely   and spill, out of my burning head   and underneath your door   and no, I do not see what you see in your old eyes   but I, will be cutting up your fears for eternity      AND YOU CAN'T BLAME WHAT YOU ARE   WHAT YOU SAY   YOU CAN'T BLAME THAT ON US   WHAT YOU ARE   OH MY GOD, YOU SAY   THAT YOU ARE   WHAT YOU ARE   WE ARE NOT THE SAME   NO WE'RE NOT