How Did I Get Out Alive?

[Verse 1]
Down where the dullers roll
How do you keep a match lit in this hole?
Up where the idiots lead
Scattering seeds
Where we all had to stand for the pledge
When bones were thrown, we all fetched
But still we were burning inside
How did I get out alive?

[Verse 2]
And we read: here we are free
Sang "This land was made for you and me"
Watched as the president swore
Called for war (war!)
We all tied yellow ribbons 'round necks
And we all had to stand for the pledge
So smothered by national pride
How did I get out alive?

[Verse 3]
Back where the idiots rolled
I was a time bomb brought into school
It was there we learned up from down
Upside down
It was there that we stood for the pledge
Where the living were raised by the dead
Let the slaughter kept inside the lines
So how did I get out...
By some rebel angel was I blessed?
Or by some devils, maybe in lead
One by one we all choked on the lies
How did I get out alive?

[Bridge]
Hey, but I ain't no saint sent down to save you
If you struggle and fight you just may get out too
Hey, but I ain't no saint sent down to save you
If you struggle and fight you just may get out too