As We Become More Timid

from Boy Scout (Part 3 of "The Drug Years") by Paul Roessler

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As We Become More Timid

Turning our backs on a past that's so far away
Back in the day we fell in waves climbing up out of our graves
Such are heroes made.

We're teaching the kids it's dangerous to play
Best to be safe; safest to obey

Turning out backs we take no chance
Turning our eyes to a truth we know is a lie
That somehow we can cheat and never have to die
How can I say to that one mother who lost one and can only mourn and pray?
He fell for the right to make mistakes
But she'd be okay if the war was for some lower stakes
Like for something we call freedom that no one ever sees anyway

Let's hide our heads in the sand

God bless the day when Billy the Kid, Jessie James, Bonnie and Clyde
And all of their kind are safely locked away
May we lose the key and never come to find
That without our wolves we might as well be sheep

So teach all the kids to follow the well marked way
It's best to be safe, safest to obey
And when the sheep have won the wolves must hide and run

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from Boy Scout (Part 3 of "The Drug Years"), released June 27, 2021

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