We Were Right

from "Monsters" by Dudley Saunders

We meant to live inside a song
That would go on and on and on
Not in a couch in your rec room

And so we left you in a run
The way a bullet leaves a gun
The way a bullet leaves a wound

And we did everything you feared
Danced to dark on rotting piers
And we forgot all about you

We were crazy
We were cruel
We did everything
You warned us not to do
But the dirty truth is that
We were right
To do everything that we did to you

And in our taxis full of teeth
Life was beautiful and brief
And so we let our juices spray

We gave our skin away
To make a playground place
Where we would let anybody play

But there were reasons to your rules
We were stupider than fools
When we laughed right in your face

We were crazy
We were cruel
We did everything
You warned us not to do
But the dirty truth is that
We were right
To do everything that we did

‘Cause all you wouldn’t say out loud
Had to come rock and rolling from our mouths
Rocked the cradle and the crowd
Until it rocked us
Inside out

But the dirty truth is that
we were right
to do everything that we did to you
we had to
do everything
everything
everything