Movement For The Common Man - Styx

Children of the land don't wear a frown upon your face

Come on and join your hands, we're all part of the human race

The music is here to let you leave your fears behind

Come on along, don't get me wrong and see what you might a find

Children of the land

Children of the land

Don't misunderstand

You're all children of the land

Don't trust anyone else to run your life and set your goals

You gotta be able to live with yourself when you are getting old

Others are getting blamed for messing your life around

It's your own fault if you complain for letting it get you down

Children of the land

Children of the land

Don't misunderstand

You're all children of the land

Children - come on children now

Children - yeah

Children - I said children yeah

Children - alrighty now

Children - yeah yeah yeah

Children - of the land

Children - of the land

Children - I said of the land

Yeah well you see now, I'm a depression baby

And I remember the WPA

I think we just start the same thing again and get those people out workin' there

why not?

Is it too menial for someone to sweep the street?

And if you get enough money where you don't have to work

Let's face it, who wants to work?

There's no reason why anybody at five generations of people gotta' be on welfare

I had one fella get in, no offence to you gentlemen,

he had long hair and a beard,

and uh, I told him

"You better go home and take a bath"

He had B/O so bad it was terrible

I said "you might be educated", but uh, "did your parents tell you to go dirty"?

See the latest issue

Hard up, see

Chicago scene

Kids now a days, that's the whole thing

Too much money, they got too much money

They don't have to struggle and work for things

Like when I was growing up had to do

And I was lucky if I got the job delivering hats at a hat store for 25 cents per

hat

Too much money today is with the young kids

Everything is handed to them and that's why they're the way they are

Another new day takes up on him

A fanfare wakes the land

The naked life just a shinin' down

At the dawn of the common man

Outside in the madding crowd

He laughs along the way

Traffic city, what a pity

It dosen't have a word to say

Troubled people, billions of people

They can't seem to understand

The ringing ears are unable to hear

The sounds of the natural plan

Yeah yeah yeah

Morning sunshine

On carpets of green

Cascades of water

Are flowing endlessly

Here in the morning light

We spent a holiday

Here in the morning

At Mother Nature's Matinee

Here in the morning

At Mother Nature's Matinee

Here in the morning

At Mother Nature's Matinee

End