Billing come runnin' through the tunnel

Got a dream he's gonna change the world

Got some spray paint gonna relate

Politics on the walls of Pittsburgh

He sprays all night and day enraptured

With Jung and Jesus Marx

His quest for justice words in colors

His peace will stop all wars



Oh! Billy chained to the future

Billy's in his room with his gloom and a pen and a pad

Dishes stacked in the kitchen

Momma's upstairs with a man who's not his dad

Billy ponders existence

Then takes a look at what he's written down

Please release me from this world of clowns



Dogs eat the innocent read it in cement

Billy's mission closer every day

Pontificate the sidewalk let them eat Reeboks

Most everyone would let it all melt away

But there's a few like him who see

Then men of power's lies

A bright new road will lay to waste

Their dark unspoken crimes



Oh! Billy stops on a penny

His father's like a rock hasn't talked for seventeen years

Julie fixes in the basement

She's got a baby they don't know what it's doin' here

Billy changes the channel

And says a prayer to a God he hasn't found

Please release me from this world of clowns



Oh! Billy shuts off the screaming

It's noisy on the block like a clock ticking off the tears

Father's face hasn't changed yet

Billy tries to speak but his daddy still doesn't hear

Julie, why do you do that?

Momma, didn't you hold me when I was young?

Please release me from this world of clowns