Re: My Sign

so, what? was i too stupid to realize that everybody has been making
fun of me this whole time, i am a malicious and spiteful person, i
don't have a single nice bone in my body, etc...etc...etc...

so what should i do? go away? how?

Well, the neighborhood bully, i'm just one man,
My enemies say i'm on their land.
They got me outnumbered, about a million to one,
i got no place to escape to, no place to run.
i'm the neighborhood bully.

The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
i'm criticized and condemned for being alive.
i'm not supposed to fight back, i'm supposed to have thick skin,
i'm supposed to lay down and die when my door is kicked in.
i'm the neighborhood bully.

The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,
i've wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen my family scattered, my people hounded and torn,
i'm always on trial for just being born.
i'm the neighborhood bully.

Well, i knocked out a lynch mob, i was criticized,
Old women condemned me, said i should apologize.
Then i destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for me.
i was supposed to feel bad.
i'm the neighborhood bully.

Well, the odds are against it and the chance is quite weak
That i'll live by the rules that the world makes for me,
'Cause there's a noose at my neck and a gun at my back
And a license to kill me is given out to every maniac.
i'm the neighborhood bully.

i got no allies to really speak of.
What i get i must pay for, i don't get it out of love.
i buy obsolete weapons and i won't be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by my side.
i'm the neighborhood bully.

Well, i'm surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
i'm the neighborhood bully.

Every empire that's enslaved me is gone,
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.
i've made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,
In bed with nobody, under no one's command.
i'm the neighborhood bully.

Now my holiest journals have been trampled upon,
No contract i signed was worth what it was written on.
i took the crumbs of the world and i turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and i turned it into health.
i'm the neighborhood bully.

What's anybody indebted to me for?
Nothin', they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
i'm the neighborhood bully.

What have i done to wear so many scars?
do i change the course of rivers?
do i pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock, time standing still,
Neighborhood bully.

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