From the dirty needles washing up on the beach
To the empty dead eyes watchin tv
To the drugs that shoulda been the death of me
and the bodies laying on a foreign street
see the girl on the corner sellin herself
Motherfucker in the office sellin everybody else

Said you best believe
It's die or live free
It's gonna leave a bruise
Runnin head long into the cold hard truth

If you go along to get along
You're gonna find out that you were always wrong

Spin it however you wanted to
I ain't for sale let's talk about you
Every slave owner fears the truth
When they're wrapped up in red white and blue
My babies don't need total war
Everyman a criminal and you're just whores

And you best believe
It's die or live free
It's gonna leave a bruise
Runnin head long into the cold hard truth

If you go along to get along
You're gonna find out that you were always wrong

Sing the dead city blues to my generation
liberals with guns like a revelation
Every bullet is a chosen son
And I'm not lookin for cheap salvation
I can feel the storm come in my bones
God made the cover of Rolling Stone

And you best believe
It's die or live free
It's gonna leave a bruise
Runnin head long into the cold hard truth