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