Stones In The Road

When we were young, we pledged allegiance

Every morning of our lives

The classroom rang with children's voices

Under teacher's watchful eye

We learned about the world around us

At our desks and at dinnertime

Reminded of the starving children

We cleaned our plates with guilty minds

Stones in the road

We played like marbles in the dust

'Til a voice called for us

To make our way back home

Stones in the road

When I was ten, my father held me

On his shoulders above the crowd

To see a train draped in mourning

Pass slowly through our town

His widow kneeled with all her children

At the sacred burial ground

The Tv glowed that long hot summer

With all the cities burning down

Stones in the road

Flew out from our bicycle tires

Worlds removed from all those fires

As we raced each other home

Stones in the road

Stones

And now we drink our coffee on the run

Climb that ladder rung by rung

We are the daughters and the sons

But here's the line that's missing...

The starving children have been replaced

By souls out on the street

We give a dollar when we pass

And hope our eyes don't meet

We pencil in, we cancel out

We crave the corner suite

(?) We kiss your ass, we pencil out

We doctor the receipt

Stones in the road

Feel out from beneath our wheels

Another day another deal

Before we get back home

Stones in the road

Leave a mark from whence they came

A thousand points of light or shame

Baby, I don't know

Stones in the road

Stones in the road