Stones In The Road

When we were young, we pledged allegiance

Every morning of our lives

Classroom rang with children's voices

Under teacher's watchful eyes

We learned about the world around us

At our desks and at dinnertime

Reminded of the starving children

Cleaned our plates with guilty minds

Stones in the road

Played like marbles in the dust

'Til a voice called to 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 their 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

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 make you hold

We doctor the receipt

Stones in the road

Peel 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