Wellthe neighborhood bullyhe s just one man
His enemies say he s on their land.
They got him outnumbered about a million to one
He got no place to escape tono place to run.
He s the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully just lives to survive
He s criticized and condemned for being alive.
He s not supposed to fight backhe s supposed to have thick skin
He s supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He s the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land
He s wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scatteredhis people hounded and torn
He s always on trial for just being born.
He s the neighborhood bully.
Wellhe knocked out a lynch mobhe was criticized
Old women condemned himsaid he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factorynobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He s the neighborhood bully.
Wellthe chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he ll live by the rules that the world makes for him
Cause there s a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
He s the neighborhood bully.
He got no allies to really speak of.
What he gets he must pay forhe don t get it out of love.
He buys obsolete weapons and he won t be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.
He s the neighborhood bully.
Wellhe s surrounded by pacifists who all want peace
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Nowthey wouldn t hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He s the neighborhood bully.
Every empire that s enslaved him is gone
Egypt and Romeeven the great Babylon.
He s made a garden of paradise in the desert sand
In bed with nobodyunder no one s command.
He s the neighborhood bully.
Now his holiest books have been trampled upon
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He s the neighborhood bully.
What s anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He s the neighborhood bully.
What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bullystanding on the hill
Running out the clocktime standing still
Neighborhood bully.
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