Since the day I let you in Feeling so cosmopolitan Don't you know I tried so hard to make a home for you Oh but my cupboard's mostly empty And you always get upset And now I'm working nights for nickels Just to feed my favorite pit I know it's easy to remind me of the things I haven't got I'd be better if you left me here to rot You say that it's a choice to make a message with my voice But I'm on eggshells when I walk around the living room Cause at the end of the day my Nightly news is inundated with your views I start to think there isn't nothing I can do Cause you move mountains with your anger You swell oceans when you're sad And you start wars with your rejoicing And you treated me so bad There is a conflict here of interest The interest isn't mine I start to think about leaving you behind Some definitions of our difference, once invented long maintained Now someone's dying on a dance floor, You can say that we're the same but it's a lie War machines and power dreams and racist, Homophobic schemes can't orient Themselves to give the people what they need The ones who live to lead our fights The ones who died to gain our rights The ones collected on your cutting floor shout "Who turned out the lights?" I know I tried