| Influencing ideas you have and the lives you make | 
| Measure social position to your neighbor by what you can take | 
| Because opportunity is not equal in our country | 
| The social structure’s built to keep we the people down | 
| You people with your plastic houses | 
| You people with your plastic families | 
| People with your plastic views | 
| You know nothing of what the world offers you to do | 
| Adults don’t believe children can think | 
| Distrust of a next generation | 
| Feel undermined when kids get tools | 
| That were never available to you | 
| I want to believe in my country | 
| I want to believe in my textbooks | 
| I want to believe in my leaders | 
| I want to believe — aarrggh | 
| Used in ways that seem to threaten all your adult values | 
| Tell your child to believe in whitewash, not any cultural history | 
| Teachers and parents don’t believe in the kids | 
| Shit shouldn’t be taught how to think | 
| Fear your history, fear your history | 
| Fear it because it isn’t that wonderful | 
| And if children were to learn the truth | 
| All the horror that went on, they’d lose all respect for society | 
| Anything damaging to this image | 
| It’s got to now be suppressed | 
| Just to protect the country’s future | 
| From themselves and from the truth | 
| I want to believe in my country | 
| I want to believe in my textbooks | 
| I want to believe in my leaders | 
| I want to believe — aarrggh | 
| Pretend we don’t see, why do they lie | 
| Pretend we don’t see, why do they lie | 
| Pretend we don’t see, why do they lie | 
| Pretend we don’t see, why do they lie | 
| Why do they lie | 
| Why do they lie to us |