Let Them Run Your Lives Lyrics - John Mellencamp

Hello girls and boys 

As you sit in your carpeted bedrooms 

With your stereos on and on 

Playin' with those hundred dollar toys 

Built to occupy your minds 

So you don't notice your future's are gone 

And as you race on through the streets tonight 

Lookin' for some lonely lover to hold you tight 

You think that the world is alright 

Well you're out of touch, you're out of time 

You're gonna crack, your fragile regulated minds 

As you're headin' on to no kind of conclusion 

[Chorus:] 

Go on, let 'em run your lives 

Watch 'em as they cut your throat 

With they're parental carving knife 

Go on, let 'em run your lives 

Are you too young to see 

Or just to old to fight 

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They've taken the energy away from you 

They haven't taught you enough to deal 

With the ordeal you must be goin' through 

Yeah but look at this now 

They've left you the schools 

They've left you the government 

But they're all fallin' down 

Don't forget to make the past due payments 

And in this world of uncertainties 

You can be certain that 

You must kiss the ass of the authoritites 

And kiss you will if you want to survive 

You don't have to look too hard to see 

That there just ain't no free rides 

Hell it takes a real man to survive 

[Chorus] 

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Well Jay Dee is locked in his soul some kinda hotel 

Well he's burnin inside he shakes shakes shakes 

All through the night 

And little Ruda Juda is passed out on the floor 

She's just so damn stupid won't somebody 

Take away her gun and show her the door 

Show her the door, show her that door's open 

And me I'm so misunderstood, but I'm still alive 

And my eyes are open wide to the fact 

That the world just will lie 

And it'll kick you right in the face 

[Chorus] 

Hey are you too young to see 

Or just too old to fight 

Do we have to fight the rest of our lives