colours on the street red white and blue people shufflin' their feet people sleepin' in their shoes but there's a warnin' sign on the road ahead there's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead don't feel like satan but i'm to them so i try to forget it anyway i can keep on rockin' in the free world i see a girl in the night with a baby in her hand under an old street light near a garbage can now she puts the kid away and she's gone to get a hit she hates her life and what she's done to it that's one more kid that will never go to school never get to fall in love never get to be cool we got a thousand points of light for the homeless man we got a kinder gentler machine gun hand we got department stores and toilet paper got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer got a man of the people says keep hope alive got fuel to burn got roads to drive