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