back in my schooldays acting the fool days one and one and one is three and the man said hey come and cut yourself a piece of the big time armor clad forces riding trojan horses never made sense to me i didn t want to be a part of the great debate on moonshine stop pay the price they said to me take this advice you re out of your head i said stop hold the phone this has to be cut to the bone too bad i see red i see red i see red sly man stumbles twists and he tumbles he always lands on his feet and he sets his face towards the far horizon won t you come this way can t you go that way but his rhythm don t miss a beat cause he s doing everything he can to keep surviving stop pay the price they said to me take this advice you re out of your head stop pay the price they said to me take this advice you re out of your head i said stop hold the phone this has to be cut to the bone too bad i see red i see red i see red so who wants a riot people should be quiet don t we give them good tv you can learn to love your lifetime of distraction nothing on the inside nothing on the outside all the way from a to z i can live without that kind of satisfaction stop pay the price they said to me take this advice you re out of your head i said stop hold the phone this has to be cut to the bone too bad i see red i see red i see red 