Teenage Wildlife

Well, how come you only want tomorrow?

With its promise of something hard to do

A real life adventure with more than pieces of gold

Blue skies above and sun on your arms

Strength in your stride and hope in those squeaky clean eyes

You'll get chilly receptions everywhere you go

Blinded with desire, I guess the season is on

So, you train by shadow boxing, search for the truth

But it's all, but it's all used up

Break open your million dollar weapon

And push your luck

Still you push, still you push your luck

A broken nosed mogul, are you one of the new wave boys?

Same old thing in brand new drag comes sweeping into view

As ugly as teenage millionaire pretending it's a whiz kid world

You'll take me aside and say, "Well, David what should I do?

"They wait for me in the hallway"

I'll say, "Don't ask me, I don't know any hallways"

But they move in numbers and they've get me in a corner

I feel like a group of one, no, no, they can't do this to me

I'm not some piece of teenage wildlife

Those mid-wives to history put on their bloody robes

And the word is that the hunted one is out there on his own

And you're alone for maybe the last time

And you breathe for a long time

Then you howl like a wolf in a trap

And you dare not look behind

You fall to the ground like a leaf from the tree

And look up one time at that vast blue sky

Scream out aloud as they shoot you down

I'm not a piece of teenage wildlife

I'm not a piece of teenage wildlife

And no one will have seen and no one will confess

The fingerprints will prove that you couldn't pass the test

There'll be others on the line filing pass, who'll whisper low

I miss you, he really had to go

Well, each to his own, he was another teenage wild life

Another piece of teenage wild life

Another piece of teenage