you can keep your promises and your lies no one's gonna' make sure you say what you mean and you can kill all the children you ever wanted to no one's gonna' shed a tear when the witnesses describe the scene (chorus:) 'cause we all have bicycles (x3) and radios and wristwatches too you can take our speech away we didn't have much left to say of any note and you can lock up our poets and our essayists no one was really reading what they wrote (chorus) and you can rape our women if you must none of them will tell you no a second time you can leave our hungry unfed our sick without a bed we know it's hard to move forward without somebody being left behind (chorus)