Crooked Minds
Billy Talent Lyrics

Crooked minds have gone astray
Individuals with corrupt ways of thinking have lost their path in life.

Have they never learned from yesterday?
Have these people not learned from past mistakes and experiences?

Only a fool would wear the crown
Only a foolish person would take on a position of power.

One day the kids will tear it down
Eventually, the younger generation will overthrow the system that these corrupt individuals have created.

Can't you see the clocks are ticking away?
Do you not realize that time is constantly passing us by?

They try to fit more hours into the day
People are constantly trying to do more within a limited amount of time.

To see that you was crunching numbers away
To see that you were working tirelessly and continuously.

We're running out breath just to keep up the pace
We are struggling to keep up with the fast pace of life.

And when did the revolver start the race?
When did violence become the answer to our problems?

Accelerated architecture creates
Rapid construction of buildings creates a manufactured environment that is not natural.

A manufactured lifestyle for the deranged
An artificial way of life for people with abnormal ways of thinking.

They swallow up the green and build up the gray
They consume nature and replace it with unnatural things.

And like tomorrows kids, dispose of today
Just like future generations, we dispose of things that are of value today.

When d'you think the roots will buy them out?
When will nature and pure intentions take over and remove corruption?

Crooked minds under gray skies
Corrupt individuals live beneath a gloomy and lifeless sky.

They can't live 'til something dies
They cannot live without destroying something else.

('til something dies)
(Until something is destroyed)

Crooked minds ain't satisfied
Corrupt individuals are never content.

Til the ground touches the sky
They will not be satisfied until they have taken everything and consumed it all.

('til the kids will tear it down)
(Only the younger generation will be able to take it all away.)

Cemetery statue stare into space
Monuments meant to commemorate the dead are vacant, and amount to nothing.

Sucked into a social media craze
People are becoming addicted to social media, losing themselves and leaving behind people and places that matter.

They're looking for an answer to explain
Individuals are searching for explanations for life, but are only finding confusion.

The reason why disaster strikes again
Why trouble keeps occurring and aggravating them time and again.

A picture perfect family sits by the lake
A family idealized in magazines and TV exists only in fake renderings.

Swimming in a sea of mechanical waste
People are caught up in a world of mechanical things that have negative effects on their lives.

And can't they see a tragedy awaits?
Why people can't see the negativity surrounding them that is inevitably leading to disaster.

We'll tear it down
We (the younger generation) will destroy the corrupt system and start anew.

Hope can't arise these bloodshot eye
Despite the hopelessness of the situation, people are still trying to find a way to thrive.

Tangled in their power lines
People are caught up in their own world and have lost sight of everything else.

Tear the ground up with their lives
They work so much that they are destroying their own lives as well as the environment.

Raise the caskets in the sky
Death is becoming more prevalent and it is being memorialized increasingly in inappropriate ways.

Someday soon they'll realize
People will eventually come to their senses and realize something needs to change.

Nothing's left for you and I
When they reach the end, there will be nothing but dissatisfaction for what they have done.