What You Will

Intro: Verso 1: I had a friend who had to vent On a time that left him quite verklempt I asked exactly what he meant And helplessly he said: "I'm just a boy with a broken dream And a chemical dependency That's eating up what's left of me While they say plan ahead" He asked his father "what's the point? The future ain't too bright." Then dad replied for the first time: "I think you might be right" Cause your generation's on medication Blinded by inebriation Wallowing in procrastination Frankly bored of education Live in fear of foreign nations Nuclear annihilation Searching for an explanation While I have the realization that it's all my fault And such is life Interlude: ( Verso 2: I held a girl for a bit of a while In an age where a smile was out of style She made denial seem worth while I never quite knew how She had a voice and a wish for fame And claimed the world would know here name I told her I once felt the same But look where I am now So darling, keep your head on straight The vision won't pan out She'd say "I always get my way and You can just get out!" So she worked real hard and she danced away But she put a play for her mirror all day And the years went by, she turned 28 Over the hill and a little too late With deteriorating mental health The president's dead cause she proved herself And though you never heard her sing She's on magazines and TV screens While she sits and smiles in a prison cell Where she hung herself with a studded belt She went out like a star And such is life Interlude: ( Verso 3: I knew a fella so tried and true He's a lot like me and a bit like you Who struggled through what bound him to A social web of lies He saw the things he chose to see Inside a world of fantasy And never fit too comfortably In anybody's eyes But, when the system pulled his card And said, "You turned out right" We fed you fear for 18 years Preparing for a fight So, son get off that unicorn and come try on this uniform Cause these are the colors that never run: Red, white, blue, and a silver gun Though he never laid a finger on anyone, he just sang his songs and had his fun On the battlefield he met his end When he took a bullet to save his friend His mom got word the other day In a letter that read, "Thanks anyway" But that's how freedom rings. And such is life Interlude: ( My thought on everybody else Would lead me back to view myself And take the sorrow that I felt To build a case-in-point My home sweet home of lemon drops Where dinner's served on counter tops The healthy family unit stops When parents disappoint The stranger's hand that feeds you is a jackal in disguise That sends us poison arrows from apocalyptic skies There's a fallout child with an empty face Who'll finish last in the human race In a vegetative state at his parents' place An ashamed disgraced who's afraid to age His rage enslaves a caged white dove Who's raised on drugs and selfish love The product of a time defined by me, myself, and I combined With a slow decline on a string of pills While the world keeps turning, we're standing still And growing up all wrong The sandbox lines are drawn The backward beat goes on And such is life Outro (