Nothing to Prove

from Breaking Down the Barriers that Break Down Your Music by Billy and the Lost Boys

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There's someone in this room
With a manifesto on their mind
And they've got nothing to prove
And they prove it all the time
So if you've got nothing to prove
If you had nothing to prove
Well if you've got nothing to prove
What are you gonna do?
Unleashed like the blood on the battle ground
This is the sound that the lost children have found
It's the only priceless thing they own

One posession for a generation
That's got nothing to call their own
This is the anthem of our underground
(Who cares they don't and neither should we)
Don't care who's listening or what you've found
(So save the drama for the TV movie)
Locked in the soundtrack of our lives
(Who cares you don't and neither should we)
This is the one way we'll survive
(So save your drama for the TV movie)
And this is how we'll die
It took so long just to get wrong
And it took so long just to move on
It took so long just to get it wrong
It took so long
It took so long just to get wrong
And it took so long just to move on
It took so long just to get it wrong
It took so long...
This is the anthem of our underground
(Who cares they don't and neither should we)
Don't care who's listening or what you've found
(So save the drama for the TV movie)
Locked in the soundtrack of our lives
(Who cares you don't and neither should we)
This is the one way we'll survive
(So save your drama for the TV movie)
And this is how we'll die
So what have you got to prove?
This is the anthem of our underground
(Who cares they don't and neither should we)
Don't care who's listening or what you've found
(So save the drama for the TV movie)
Locked in the soundtrack of our lives
(Who cares you don't and neither should we)
This is the one way we'll survive
(So save your drama for the TV movie)
And this is how we'll die

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from Breaking Down the Barriers that Break Down Your Music, released January 1, 2004

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