Dear mother, can you hear me whining
It's been three whole weeks since I have left your home
This sudden fear has left me trembling
'Cause now it seems that I am out here on my own
And I'm feeling so alone

Pay attention to the cracked streets and the broken homes
Some call it slums and some call it nice
I want to take you through the waste land
That I like to call my home
Welcome to paradise

A gunshot rings out at the station
Another urchin snaps and left dead on his own
It makes me wonder why I'm still here
For some strange reasons it's now feeling like my home
And I'm never gonna go

Dear mother, can you hear me laughing
It's been six whole months since I have left your home
It makes me wonder why I'm still here
For some strange reason it's now feeling like my home
And I'm never gonna go

I'm all busted up
Broken bones and nasty cuts
Accidents will happen
But this time I can't get up
She comes to check on me
Making sure I'm on my knees
After all she's the one
Who put me inthis state

Is she ultra violent?
Is she disturbed?
I better tell her I love her
Before she does it all over again
OH GOD, SHE'S KILLING ME!!!

For now I lie around
Hell that's all I cen really do
She takes good care of me
Just keep saying my love is true

Looking out my window for someone that's passing by
No one knows I'm locked in here
All I do is cry

Do you have the time
To listen to me whine
About nothing and everything all at once
I am one of those
Melodramatic fools
Neurotic to the bone no doubt about it

Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid?
I'm just stoned

I went to a shrink
To analyze my dreams
She says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down
I went to a whore
He said my life is a bore
And quit my whining 'cause it's bringing her down

Grasping to control
So you better hold on

She, she screams in silence
A sullen riot penetrating through her mind
Waiting for a sign
To smash the silence with the brick of self control

Are you locked up in a world
That's been planned out for you?
Are you feeling like a social tool without a use?

Scream at me until my ears bleed
I'm taking heed just for you

She, she's figured out
That all her doubts are someone else's point of view
Waking up this time
To smash the silence with the brick of self control

Roaming 'round your house
Wasting your time
No obligation, just
Wasting your time
So why are you alone?
Wasting your time
When you could be with me
Wasting your time

I'm a waste like you
With nothing else to do
May I waste your time, too?

Warding off regrets
Wasting your time
Smoking cigaretts
Wasting your time
I'm just a parasite
Wasting your time
Applying myself to
Wasting your time

I heard you crying loud
All the way across town
You've been searching for that someone
And it's me out on the prowl
As you sit around feeling sorry for yourself

Don't get lonely now
And dry your whining eyes
I'm just roaming for the moment
Sleazin' my back yard so don't get
Uptight you been thinking about ditching me

No time to search the world around
'Cause you know where I'll be found
When I come around

I heard it all before
So don't knock down my door
I'm a loser and a user
So i don't need no accuser
To slag me down because I know I'm right

So go do what you like
Make sure you do it wise
You may find out that youeself
Doubt means nothing was ever there
You can't go forcing something
If it's just not right

Seventeen and strung out on confusion
Trapped inside a roll of disillusion
I found out what it takes to be a man
Now mom and dad will never understand

Secrets collecting dust but never forget
Skeltons come to life in my closet
I found out what it takes to be a man
Now mom and dad will never understand
What's happening to me

Seventeen and coming clean for the first time
I finally figured out myself for the first time
I found out what it takes to be a man
Now mom and dad will never understand
What's happened to me

I saw my friend the other day
And I dont' know
Exactly just what he became
It goes to show
It wasn't long ago
And I was just like you
And now I think I'm sick
And I wanna go home

How have I been how have you been
It's been so long
What have you done with all your time
And what went wrong
I knew you back when
And you...you knew me
And now I think you're sick
I wanna go home

Anybody ever say no?
Ever tell you that you weren't right?
Where did all the little kid go?
Did you lose it in a hateful fight?
And you know it's true

All brawn and no brains
And all those nice things
Yeah, you finally got what you want
Someone to look good with
And light your cigarette
Is this what you really want?

I figured out that you're all about
And I don't think I like what I see
Sooooooo...
I hope I won't be there
In the end if you come around

How long will he last
Before he's in a creep in the past
And you're alone once again?
Will you pop up again
And be my "special friend" 'till the end
And when will that be?

Something's on my mind
It's been for quite some time
This time I'm on to you
So where the other face?
The face I heard before
Your head trips boring me

Let's nuke the pridge we torched 2,000 times before
This time we'll blast it all to hell
I've heard this burning in my guts now for so long
My belly's aching now to say...

Struck down in a rut
Of dislogic and smut
A side of you well hid
When it's all said and done
It's real and it's been fun
But was it all real fun?