[Verse 1]

Blacken the sky and sharpen the axe

Forever cursed to live unrelaxed

We make no bones, a house is not a home

And a home is nowhere we can stay

[Verse 2]

Dodged the draft, but can't dodge the war

Forever cursed to live insecure

The curtain drops, a gang of Gen X cops assembles

Trembling before our human nature

[Chorus]

It wasn't built for me

It's your academy

But in my time, you taught me how to see

Each generation makes its own apology

[Verse 3]

Welcome back, my oldest friend

Are you cursed to depart again?

Your ways and means, eternally obscene

And always looking for obscenity and hatred

[Chorus]

It wasn't built for me

It's your academy

But in my time, you taught me how to see

Each generation makes its own apology

[Piano Solo]

[Chorus]

It wasn't built for me

It's your academy

But in my time, you taught me how to see

Each generation makes its own apology

[Outro]

It's by design and consequentially

Each generation makes its own apology