Torches And Tragedies Lyrics - Good Riddance

Children who watch their fathers rise to work each day 

Becoming bitter as they piss their lives away 

Out of balance as he stumbles to the porch 

Too young to recognize the passing of the torch 

And so they cry (in fear) 

They wonder why (not here) 

The cycle punctuates an atmosphere of pain and lies 

It gets to where one never knows what to expect 

A bedtime story or a broken nose or neck 

They take it in and take it on 

Like they've been shown 

It goes on and on and 

Too many sterile homes without a thing to say 

A generation losing innocence this way and 

No recognition of the bridges as they burn 

Just repetition of behaviors they have learned 

And so they cry (in fear) 

They wonder why (not here) 

We tip the fragile scales of temperament and guilt 

Too soon mistaken for the will that makes us strong 

But looking back it's just the shame we pass along