colours on the street red white and blue

people shufflin' their feet people sleepin' in their shoes

but there's a warnin' sign on the road ahead

there's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead

don't feel like satan but i'm to them

so i try to forget it anyway i can



keep on rockin' in the free world



i see a girl in the night with a baby in her hand

under an old street light near a garbage can

now she puts the kid away and she's gone to get a hit

she hates her life and what she's done to it

that's one more kid that will never go to school

never get to fall in love never get to be cool





we got a thousand points of light for the homeless man

we got a kinder gentler machine gun hand

we got department stores and toilet

paper got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer

got a man of the people says keep hope alive

got fuel to burn got roads to drive