we are to be something here again

we are to play soldiers now, pretend

we are born inside these endless halls of shame

we are jaded by the error-ways of man



it doesn't make us strong

it doesn't make us strong

the things that i find stranger here

will not let us in

will not let us in

show me, i won't tell

and even if i go today

i won't understand

understand



we are to be something we are not

we are to repeat our faults my friend

we are taken down from sanity's lonely heights

we are shown the downward spiral ways of man



it doesn't make us strong

it doesn't make us strong

the things that i find stranger here

will not let us in

no, they will not let us in

show me, i won't tell

'cause even if i die today

i won't understand

understand