Better Off

now we're living in the age of mis-information while we're sucking on the marrow of yesterday's dead life just filling up the sky's with cheap gasoline while we're standing on the edge spitting fire at the stars with whiskey breath will we hear the earth's tender ache or slave ourselves to stupid that we can not understand that we'd be BETTER OFF be BETTER OFF be BETTER OFF if we all just did something right we'd be BETTER OFF be BETTER OFF be BETTER OFF if we cared less for money and more just for life fears run rampant in the streets and in our homes and you and me the revolution won't be on TV just violence or death to see but by then it'll be too late to turn the war into love cause now it's getting kind of hard to breath and now my garden hose is a flame thrower oh how could we be so dumb as to kill our children's future but not make them understand that we could be BETTER OFF be BETTER OFF