When Alienation Says Hi - A4

They never noticed me,
I’m less than wallpaper,
Not even the fly on the wall
knows my name.

Some people say
the whole world flies by,
But not when you’re
on the outside looking in.

It’s a high school dance,
and you sat there all night,
No courage to move,
no spark to incite (ignite).

Who needs hell
when there’s high school life?
A factory of heartbreak,
shame, hatred, and strife.

Chorus

Boom, ba-ba-boom,
Boom, ba-ba-boom,
Can you hear the revolution
brewing in the room?

Boom, ba-ba-boom,
Boom, ba-ba-boom,
A lonely heart can become
a ticking tune of doom.

Verse 2

Parents, don’t shut your eyes.
Parents, don’t cover your ears.

The handbook lies
kids operate without gears.
Grinding through a system
that’s bursting at the seams.

The dumb are get dumber,
dragging down the rest.
The quiet ones are hiding
what they never confess.

They’re fed a steady diet
of violence and fear,
While the media sells outrage
year after year.

Inside their heads
dark movies start to play,
And nobody notices
they’re slipping away.

Bridge

Mama, Papa,
where are you?

Where’s the moral compass
that was meant to guide them through?

This adolescent jungle,
this social zoo,
They’re searching for a map,
but none of them have you.

Final Chorus

The drumbeats of the end
are driving through the child,
The demons start dancing,
wild, wild, wild.

Ride it high
to the crack of the trigger,
Chaos arrives
and the headlines get bigger.

Boom, ba-ba-boom,
Boom, ba-ba-boom.

The story never ends
when the bodies are entombed.
The sadness lingers on,
long after the gloom—

Like driving home
after a holiday drive bye,
Watching memories fade
beneath an empty sky.

Oh bye…
da-da-da-da-da…

When alienation says hi.
Someone else

is saying goodbye (in a river of tears)