Blacken the sky and sharpen the axe

Forever cursed to live unrelaxed

We make no bones, a house is not a home

And a home is nowhere we can stay

Dodged the draft but can't dodge the war

Forever cursed to live insecure

The curtain drops, a gang of Gen X cops assembles

Trembling before our human nature (ooh)

It wasn't built for me

It's your academy

But in my time, you taught me how to see

Each generation makes its own apology

Welcome back, my oldest friend

Are you cursed to depart again?

Your ways and means, eternally obscene

And always looking for obscenity and hatred (ooh)

It wasn't built for me

It's your academy

But in my time, you taught me how to see

Each generation makes its own apology

It wasn't built for me

It's your academy

But in my time, you taught me how to see

Each generation makes its own apology (ooh)

It's by design and consequentially

Each generation makes its own apology