Stand up straight just like a man Be counted with all the rest Work real hard and graduate You need a well deserved good rest Find a job and find a mate Settle down in a house in the suburbs These are dreams they gave to you I can feel when they're not yours My skin peels like wallpaper In the house that we don't go to anymore Feelings are far too radical To ever see eye to eye A mother's son was killed today Only what she knows is why Beheaded by hands of so-called faith Maybe for a chance to live in the sky Whatever the goal and point they saw it I don't think that was the way to go about it They don't see a way around it Finally, I've come home, slipping off my shoes Into a land that brings such safety to me