Poison in the Well

Push the blankets to the side Brush your teeth and go outside Ride the bus come home and say I survived school today There is an unchecked disease that runs through the streets It feeds on fear and pride It spreads through cable wire So many have died They say it's bad apples who commit crimes But why can't they tell? There's poison in the well Don't say the purpose is defense It's an obsession a violent fetish A fatal tool a toy To entertain and to destroy An illusion of control There is an unchecked disease that runs through the streets It feeds on fear and pride It spreads through cable wire So many have died They say it's bad apples who commit crimes But why can't they tell? There's poison in the well When I lock the door turn it and check once more If they got inside where would we hide? Doors and windows glass an entire class In the courtyard grass with bullets flying past Blood on the bricks shadows of lives unlived A nightmare or reality? Preventable unnecessary just another killing spree in the land of the free