You wake up on your soapbox At the crack of dawn, to stick it to The man who's in charge of everything That you can't quite understand When the anger wells inside of you Just make sure that you know where it's directed to Well you argue it a thousand times and you never change Claim they're thinking with their wallets, not their pain In a world that you created, You sleep inside a crater of your mind, your mind I said, Why don't we think about what we're doing to each other So you've been living a joke Trying to act like we're protecting ourselves So you've been living a joke Trying to act like... There's nothing wrong in the scheme of things Well scheme is the operative word We use to load our guns in a minute Before the minute was up they learned Now we run to the hills But in the hills we seek no refuge We can't hide from the scope of their corruption No we can't hide from the bullet shells And I said, Why don't we think about what we're doing to each other I said, Why don't we think about... So you've been living a joke Trying to act like we're protecting ourselves So you've been living a joke You're trying to act like...