Hardcore Lives  

1, 2, demonstrate

Young kids in disbelief

Old kids trying to find relief

All kids just trying to eat

Trying to survive, trying to be

Something more than the status quo

So what we're a little radical

A little off keel animals

Give them something, an antidote

Why am I going insane

I got an attitude and some brains

Hard times came our way

The warzone was Avenue A

All walks, all ways of life

We balked, put up a fight

Saw trouble some rolled the dice

Some fell but never gave in right

Who rose up from the depths

The generation they branded X

This generation now brands the next

And we're all still mentally vexed

Sick of your talk, sick of your lies

Sick of it all and ready to fight

We break down walls just to spite

Those that hate when we unite

Rise above, rise above

That we did, we rose above

Some just can't hate enough

We turned the hate into something that we love

1, 2, infiltrate

Who said we're a minor threat

This is religion without the debt

The keepers of the faith you left

There's still a war out here and inside my head