We don’t really believe in good guys or bad guys anymore
For us there are only winners and losers
We rely on coffee & energy drinks to make it through the day
Yet we can’t sleep at night without a sedative
We pride ourselves on being tolerant
Yet we can’t stand being around anyone who disagrees with us
We struggle with how to keep up with the mortgage
Yet we can’t fathom life without a big screened TV
We refuse to let anyone tell us how to live
Yet we are unwilling to accept responsibility for our condition
Our hearts go out to starving children who are half a world away
Yet we struggle to notice the kids suffering from neglect on our own street
We don’t really buy into the idea of right and wrong
Yet we cry out against what we consider to be injustice
We worry about the effect of toxins on the environment
Yet we pump poison into our bodies without regard
We ridicule what previous generations have held sacred
Yet we’re depressed by the meaningless of our existence
We keep our cars detailed and our lawns manicured
But we struggle to find time to nurture our children
We’ve become oddly naive in our view of current events
Yet we’re too cynical to be optimistic about the future
We’ve given ourselves over to every sensual pleasure
Yet we’ve reduced love to little more than a reaction to boredom & bodily functions
We’ve squandered our inheritance at the buffet table
Yet we find ourselves terminally unsatisfied
We all still believe in the red, white and blue
But we can’t seem to agree on what it stands for anymore
And in the end
What no power in this world could inflict upon us,
we have brought upon ourselves
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