The Airborne Toxic Event - The Kids Are Ready To Die

C – – F
all these inanimate places feel like they’re changing .
C – – G
the kids all lined up on the wall like they’re ready to die .
C – – F
these forms they’e sending , it’s like they’ll just rearrange them .
C – – G
we were caged up like animals , questioned and ready to cry!

C – – F
’cause i was just 13 when i got my first taste of danger .
C – – G
standing by the church , i had a bottle and a pen in my hand .
C – – Am
oh i said “father , i’m sorry , i just don’t know what to do with this anger .
Dm – – G
this behavior is correctable , i know this wasn’t part of your plan . ”

oh but punks like us , we were always receiving instruction .
you could burn our clothes , you could wash out the ink and the dye
but you can’t look me in the eye and say you don’t feel like a little destruction .
Am – – G – – C
and the kids are lined up on the wall and they’re ready to die .
Am – – G – – C
and the kids are lined up on the wall and they’re ready to die .

all these days just seem like they’re getting longer .
the view from our room is a gloomy and overcast grey .
the weakness we left behind seems to be getting stronger .
i swear there’s something in the air , and i don’t know what anyone could say .

’cause i saw the news this morning , there was another
boy by the side of the road , he had a gun in his hand .
i thought “well what could you say to make it ever make sense to his mother?
’oh ma’am , he was excitable , we were just trying to make him a man . ’”

but the day will come when it falls like a cheap house of plastic .
and the cards that were dealt , will be tossed like a storm in the sky .
’cause you can only lie for so long before you get something drastic
and the kids are lined up on the wall and they’re ready to die .
and the kids are lined up on the wall and they’re ready to die .