Aftermath

The city was changing The cigarette hit the spot Oh a simple distraction From to have and have not And the radio went silent And all our heroes had died Now you can buy revolution In any color or size Standing on a corner Watching people walk on Thinking about a photograph How so many people Choose a lesser evil Living in the aftermath She never got famous She was the star in my life Till we drifted like runoff Or two ships in the night Standing on a corner Watching people walk on Thinking about a photograph How so many people Choose a lesser evil Living in the aftermath It's such a long hard road, such a long hard road To hold on, and move on I hope she's happy, I hope she's free Somehow we choose our own destiny From the eye of destruction To the valley of tears Before it all went to voice mail And we rang in the year And the mid-night martyrs They still hang on the cross You can die in the gutter baby Or learn to live with the loss Standing on a corner Watching people walk on Feeling like a photograph How so many people Choose a lesser evil Living in the aftermath Standing on a corner Everbody's talking Remember when we used to laugh How so many people Chose a lesser evil Never giving peace a chance It's such a long hard road To hold on and move on boys To hold on and move on till its gone