Down By Law 1944 Lyrics

1944 Lyrics

somewhere a pen is busy with hate tonight 



jaded eyes and cynics bring me down 



somewhere a kid is playing his heart out tonight 



but he'll get nowhere with the Berkeley in-crowd 



well put-downs are so easy 



like a novel without a soul 



and every executioner wears a hood 



when it's time for heads to roll 



well they're just like new dictators 



trying to tell us what to love 



well their opinion they can take and shove 



somewhere young rebels will meet up tonight 



somewhere skateboarders and straightedgers will unite 



they don't need no magazine that's filled with hate and lies 



get enough from the world around them 



they're young but they are wise 



but negativity's easy 



you just fire and walk away 



and it's the armchair general 



who lives to fight another day 



well their opinion they can take and shove 



if this was 1944, they'd be pointing their guns at you 



cause every fascist, left or right, has a fucked-up set of rules 



but do they really think the kids are such fools? 



Or do they even care?