I never had a reason to believe in anything I never had a cause that I could fight for I never had too much of anything to call my own A drunk mother and father of four All my life I grew up watchin' others dreams come true And how I waited for my day in the sun Every day I worked harder And I got further in debt Till I realized that day was never gonna come Your written off lost cause Sold us down the river Got no hope to offer us Tore down without grief What's a generation without a reason to believe They tore down all my walls And then they made all my hatred a crime Debilitating us with all their complacency Our thoughts become mundane Our generation thinks the same Our minds anesthetized by apathetic t.v. No wars to fight Steel bridges won't burn The beliefs we uphold Are lies we never learn The only hope for the future Leaves us reason to grieve What's a generation without a reason to believe