[Verse 1]
Hey little boy, where you going?
Are you digging 'round where you don't belong?
Did you bust a door just to prove yourself?
Well, you just can't say
Did you earn your stripes in a haunted house while your daddy paid?
Did you cut and run when the poison mud monster came?
Did you come up lame?

[Verse 2]
Hey good ol' guy, what are you doing
Among the roaches and the ruins?
Do you think someone could pick you out?
Well, you just can't say
How 'bout that yuppie Yankee mouth and your sunburned face?
Well, what if sweat and grime won't kill naïveté?
What‘s it gonna take?

[Verse 3]
Now hey there, dude, are you getting strong
Digging these ditches all day long?
Did you get your kicks knocking down a wall?
Well, you wouldn‘t say
Did you find yourself trying to figure out why you ever came?
Did you find your heart in all the danger, death and pain?
Are you just the same?

[Verse 4]
And nice young man, do you feel lost
Between the haves and the have-nots?
Will you turn your back on all you got?
It's hard to say
When you see the misery that it brought a bit too late
No toxic water gonna wash your life away
You look the other way

[Verse 5]
Hey buddy boy, you done just fine
Sucked in your gut and did your time
Tell me, what difference did it make?
Well, you just can't say
Are you worried now that you didn‘t help but you took away?
Well, Mom and Dad say these things always go that way
Don't it ever change?