The Kids Are Ready To Die

Song The Kids Are Ready To Die
Artist The Airborne Toxic Event
Album All At Once

Lyrics

[00:02.745]
[00:15.565] All these inanimate places feel like they're changing.
[00:22.832] The kids all lined up on the wall like they're ready to die.
[00:30.168] These forms they'e sending, it's like they'll just rearrange them.
[00:37.855] We were caged up like animals, questioned and ready to cry!'
[00:45.371] Cause I was just 13 when
[00:47.966] I got my first taste of danger.
[00:53.652] Standing by the church,
[00:55.348] I had a bottle and a pen in my hand.
[01:00.159] Oh I said "father, I'm sorry, I just don't know what to do with this anger.
[01:08.762] This behavior is correctable, I know this wasn't part of your plan."
[01:15.999] Oh but punks like us, we were always receiving instruction.
[01:24.503] You could burn our clothes, you could wash out the ink and the dye
[01:31.258] But you can't look me in the eye and say you don't feel like a little destruction.
[01:39.678] And the kids are lined up on the wall and they're ready to die.
[01:47.235] And the kids are lined up on the wall and they're ready to die.
[02:09.837] All these days just seem like they're getting longer.
[02:17.300] The view from our room is a gloomy and overcast grey.
[02:25.167] The weakness we left behind seems to be getting stronger.
[02:32.073] I swear there's something in the air, and
[02:34.325] I don't know what anyone could say.'
[02:39.497] Cause I saw the news this morning, there was another
[02:47.986] Boy by the side of the road, he had a gun in his hand.
[02:54.484] I thought "Well what could you say to make it ever make sense to his mother?'
[03:03.178] Oh ma'am, he was excitable, we were just trying to make him a man.'"
[03:09.930] But the day will come when it falls like a cheap house of plastic.
[03:18.317] And the cards that were dealt, will be tossed like a storm in the sky.'
[03:24.935] Cause you can only lie for so long before you get something drastic
[03:33.315] And the kids are lined up on the wall and they're ready to die.
[03:40.731] And the kids are lined up on the wall and they're ready to die.
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