Held like water in your shaking hands
 Are all the small defeats a day demands
 10 to 6 or 9 to 5
 Trying, dying to survive
 Never knowing what survival means
 Leave the apartment to buy alcohol
 Hung our diplomas on the bathroom wall
 Pick at the plaster chipped away
 Survey some stunning tooth decay
 Enlist the cat in the impending class-war
 Let's lay our bad day down here dear, Let's
 Make-believe we're strong
 Or hum some protest song
 Like maybe "We Shall Overcome Someday"
 Overcome the stupid things we say
 Say I needed more than this
 Say I needed one more kiss
 We left that light on way too long now
 Let's plant a bomb at city-hall and
 Kill an MLA
 We'll talk the night away
 You call in sick, I'll quit the word-games that I play
 swear I way more than half believe it when I say
 That somewhere love and justice shine
 Cynicism falls asleep
 Tyranny talks to itself
 Sappy slogans all come true
 We forget to feed our fear