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No money man is gonna carry us
No corporate hand is gonna bury us
If we had convictions we'd be dangerous

Don't want their creed to guide our consequence
Don't want their shadow casting darkness on our future tense
They'd make a killing but we're making sense

With the last great act of defiance
To preserve us well
Heaven or hell we're gonna know we left our mark

Can't live no life that pushes thorny crowns
No new york minute's gonna tear us down
You and me, hell we're the guts of this town

With the last great act of defiance
To preserve us well
Heaven or hell we're gonna know we left our mark

Don't want no heart attack like my old man
53 and a policy to help my mother live
They never paid him back for working long
Company man but they could give a damn
For what he had to give

Another evening on the stockton road
Dreamin' plans for the greatest story ever told
We'll spit on all the cards they haven't shown

With the last great act of defiance
To preserve us well
Heaven or hell we're gonna know we left our mark

Hush now baby, can't you see
This cross i bear, it ain't for me
I do my job, it's all i have
To give you things i never had

I had my chance in '63
To start my own small company
That's over now, i know it's true
For me babe, it ain't for you

Listen to the things i say
Don't run and hide, don't turn away
Ain't no one knows what you should do
Boy, it's too late for me
It ain't for you

Son i see you're going far
Out of college, brand new car
Your business is doing well
Your mom and i, we're proud as hell

But remember everything i said
He who hesitates is dead
And a simple man with honest means
Is better than a thousand thieves

Listen to the things i say
Don't run and hide, don't turn away
Ain't no one knows what you should do
Boy, it's too late for me
It ain't for you

Hello dad, i know it's late
There's something that just couldn't wait
I'm working seven days a week
I need some time for family

There's too much work for just one man
So now i'm looking to expand
I did the things you said to do
And now

He'd eat at kfc, wore "sally" clothes and smelled like turpentine
Talked a lot about his art with a spitting image of ernest borgnine
They found him dead the other day
Out where the punks and school kids play

And i'm here in the shade
Leaning on the day's parade
Leaning on the day's parade

Kid spilled some mercury he stole from school inside his school
Covered his ass he thought, the school director's in his gene pool
But he got too much on his hands
The organ donor list expands

And i'm here in the shade
Leaning on the day's parade
Leaning on the day's parade

I never thought it wise
To wish for anyone's demise

Every face a mother'd kiss
Every gesture's hit or miss

And i'm here in the shade
Leaning on the day's parade
Leaning on the day's parade