Heretics & Privateers

Work and worry's all she's known

Lived by the golden rule since the day she was born

Through all these troubled years

She raised her family, there was no time for tears

She's done her best, the kids are grown

She prayed each day for a life of her own

Last night she disappeared

She's joined another tribe, the heretics and privateers

He's walked this treadmill since '64

Now he shows a little gray and they show him the door

God bless the company

For two weeks severance pay and all that sympathy

All he believed and all he learned

What made him proud and what he thought he had earned

Have now become his fears

He'll join the other side, the heretics and privateers

He's twenty one, she's just nineteen

Ah, but they've learned a lot from what they've seen

They know that blind obedience to the rules

Can leave you shattered, licking your wounds

He holds her close, looks at her face, he says

"Chasing the carrot is a never ending race

Success at any price, demands it's sacrifice

And some part of us will die"

She say's "One size does not fit all

And stepping on others won't make us stand tall

Let's find the last frontier

And live another way, like heretics and privateers

Let's make our own frontier

And raise our children there, like heretics and privateers."