Colors Run

Everybody wanna change the world

But nobody ever changed this town

Tell yourself you're gonna rise above it

'Til the blacktop pulls you down

We got blue veins til they hit the knife

And we don't change (who we are)

Who we are

(Can't change who we are, can't change who we are)

We got blue veins 'til they hit the knife

And they bleed red, bleed red

Why can't I be more?

I don't wanna fight my father's wars

But nothing comes easy where I come from

So we sweat it out in the concrete Sun, woah

'Til the colors run

I've seen the story play out before

Old men, they just fade away

And we become what our fathers were

Like soldiers following the orders

Put it on the shoulders of the family name

(Can't change who we are, can't change who we are)

It's who we are

(Can't change who we are, can't change who we are)

We got blue veins 'til they hit the knife

And they bleed red, bleed red

Why can't I be more?

I don't wanna fight my father's wars

But nothing comes easy where I come from

So we sweat it out in the concrete Sun, woah

'Til the colors run

Maybe it's like Axel spins it

You hate it, you hate it, and then one day you miss it

Find yourself coming back to old divisions

While your cinder block dream sleeps with the fishes

Thought it had wings, you thought you could fly

But nobody flies on the south side

You're just born here and then you die

Loyal to the oil in the blacktop sky

Or maybe it's like Joni says it

Nothing is written, boy, nothing is set

There's something brave about staying with it

And making beauty out of all this

But I'm a long way from going the distance

Feels more like dying by inches

The wishes and the misses

The poverty of indifference

Why can't I be more?

I don't wanna fight my father's wars

Nothing comes easy where I come from

So we sweat it out in the concrete Sun, woah

'Til the colors run

'Til the colors run