The Arrivals - The Joke lyrics

Thinking back on Catholic school, the pleasure I'd avoid Taught s** a precious treasure, not a thing to be enjoyed I'm a fool and I'm a sinner Oh, the dignity destroyed It's amazing that I'm standing here at all Now thinking of the parents who will misinform their kids Raise them as consumers just to set them on the skids Lie about a moral that with their generation fled It's amazing that we're standing here at all Now thinking of a government with a promise to be fair A right for common people and a means to pay their share When I look into the mirror, the promise isn't there It's amazing that we're standing here at all Now thinking of the memories and the music that we'll share The twinkling of the starlight and the movement of the air To know that we'll be dead someday and someone might have cared It's amazing that we're standing here at all Dang dang dang dang