[Verse 1]

What's everybody fighting for?

To each his own, damned honor war

What's everybody lighting off?

Another rocket on your shore

Say people, do you really want to know the name

Of the man in the mask who come to bring you pain?

And if you were not seein' then you'd realize

That you are the one to blame

For, all the funny things you used to say

And all your hopes and dreams, have slipped away

Said, all you got to do is step on through

Before you give yourself away

[Chorus]

Oh, they don't want to hurt you

Or take you away

'Cause ever since you leavin'

They say you're wrong

And that's why you're gone and I see

And you don't wanna lose, do you?

It's never part of the plans

Everybody got the same old story

Another man or a different woman

[Verse 2]

On a Monday, on a Tuesday

Another Wednesday, all the way to Saturday

If you call me, say you wanna come play

If I call you back, say, never wanna come play

[Chorus]

Oh, they don't wanna hurt you

Or take you away

And ever since you leavin'

They say you're wrong

And that's why you're gone and I see

Oh, you don't wanna lose, do you?

It's never part of your plans

Everybody got the same old story

Just another man or a different woman