Alternate Learning - Painted Windows lyrics

All the young men carry knives A sense of pride as darkness falls Dressed up in drag They're taking a girl to the riverside Muscles tense Eyes open wide And emotion has died Would you fight in the war If we advertise We'll make your blood as cold as dry ice The bad boys on the legendary avenues They used to know the way To make you beg To loosen the grip on your throat Just enough to say That it's okay You'd grow to be just like them someday But it's the same old bad cliché And I just can't live this way It's only image worship Down at the paint store they are making a deal They're spending thousands, any price is a steal Cause no one sees in And they've really got no reason To be watching for something real Skin-tight as money and city flair Back seat the vinyl-smell air New girls too young to be seen or heard Night and the car windows blurred Leather constricting each fight Loving the bomb more every night And haven't learned her name Gasoline war lighting cigarettes Save the last dance to forget Whose secretary was getting wise Always a thinner disguise More love the whiter the card Sweeping the hearts up in the yard It's never quite the same Never having learned her name Never seen the look on her face The first time that he held a gun Though his hands were so small He felt just like John Wayne And when he fired, it took his breath away Now it's gone to stay Until his girl rubs him the wrong way But it's the same old bad cliché And I just can't live this way It's only painted windows