Song Description

A song about bullying in schools. Children have a lot to live up to in today's society, and it's unfair that kids who are different from others should have to go through the kinds of torment that they do in day to day school life.

Lyrics

Someone pulled the cord on sister chic
'Cause she refused to smile or even speak
I'll be sitting by the TV screen
On channel 47 souls are selling cheap

CHORUS
How long have you held your little secret?
Using all the strength you have to keep it
How long have you waited for love?
Don't you want to smile again?
Your misfit youth's been bullied and beat here
No one understands you
They don't see clear
Standing in a dark parking lot, waiting for him
You keep playing the game
Aren't you tired yet?

So you hide your feelings
Like you never knew the awful horrid things they say 'bout you
The names they love to call behind your back
With your head held low
Your hands held high
Walk straight and don't look back

CHORUS

Aren't you beat down nearly to death?

All your bully force can't bring me down
All that I know in this world
Is everything you have can't throw me down
I'm not, I never will be absurd

Everything you know has gone to shit
Ripped to shreds and torn to little bits
So you put yourself in their shoes for a while
But the losers and the broken souls
You know they're back in style

CHORUS