Dedication is the price you pay: the initiated are
Coddled and caged
Before you walk, as soon as you crawl
Hope is pointless 'cuz you're stuck in the trawl
 [bad word] the freshman lectures and brandishments
They just betray impoverished [bad word] The puppet masters fear originality
They tighten up the tethers and they shackle your feet [bad word] 

Young [bad word] never have a chance, enticed to
The drill, admonished to dance
Early to rise and early to shine, life is long but the end is nigh

Break the guilty trammels from yesteryear
Remember how rejuvenation conquers all fears
Lowly opportunists [bad word] roles
And hawk ultimatums so their weakness won't show
The sad reflection of dead ambition
You live for nothing [bad word] 

Yeah, break the guilty trammels from yesteryear
Remember how the taste of failure makes it all clear
The lowly opportunists [bad word] roles
And hawk ultimatums so their weakness won't show

The sad reflection of dead ambition
You live for nothing
Expectation, indoctrination
Life's a damnation [bad word] 
Dying on your feet [bad word] total defeat