The Kids Are Ready To Die

The Kids Are Ready To Die (Live) - The Airborne Toxic Event

Lyrics by：Mikel Jollett

Composed by：Mikel Jollett

All these inanimate places feel

Like they're changing

And the kids all lined up on the wall

Look like they're ready to die

These forms they're sending

It's like they'll just rearrange them

We were caged up like animals

Questioned and ready to cry

'Cause I was just thirteen

When I got my first taste of danger

Standing by the church

I had a bottle and a pen in my hand

I said father I'm sorry

I just don't know

What to do with this anger

This behavior is correctable

I know this wasn't part of your plan

Oh but punks like us

We were always receiving instruction

And you could burn our clothes

You could wash out the ink and the dye

But you can't look me in the eye

And say you don't feel like

A little destruction

And the kids are lined up on the wall

And they're ready to die

And the kids are lined up on the wall

And they're ready to die

All these days just seem

Like they're getting longer

The view from my room is a gloomy

And overcast grey

It's like the weakness we left behind seems

To be getting stronger

I swear there's something in the air

And I don't know what anyone could say

'Cause I saw it in the news

This morning there was another

Boy by the side of the road

He had a gun in his hand

And I thought well

What could you say to make it ever

Make sense to his mother

Oh ma'am he was excitable

We were just trying

To make him a man

But the day will come

When it falls like a cheap house

Of plastic

And the cards that were dealt

Will be tossed like a storm in the sky

'Cause you can only lie for so long

Before you get something drastic

And the kids are lined up on the wall

And they're ready to die

And the kids are lined up on the wall

And they're ready to die