Crashing Gates and Passing Keepers

They saw us coming from miles away
Jubilant train
Wearing feathers like an exotic bird
Double-headed, breathing smoke
Looking for a line to quote, waiting to jump the rope
To change the vote, to witness hope in the newest thing, called "freedom"
But they said, "No way," and they wore the same coats, khaki-brown and faded
Typed at the same machines and tried to box up all the dreams in neat little packages
Like widgets for the factory
All the while
Watching
Big Brother watching
Big Brother watching

"But we are crashing gates, and we are passing over the gate keepers"
We are the new
And we are marching like a jubilant train through your towns
Past your landscapes of lame ducks
Past the lines of indifference
Past the stormtroopers of compromise
The deputies of damage control
The officers of fear
As they hand out their tickets to the deaf and the dumb and the younger ones
To the very old, the influential, the disturbed, the zealots, the sheltered, the innocent

As we take another ride down the blackened hall
You enter into space in the place to go
Back to the beginning of it all

Like the dawning of a new age
Like the turning of a new page
Like the birth of a new son
Like freedom on a roll
Wearing nothing but a smile on our faces and our hands up in the air

(It was all of us)

(It's so full of stars, so full of stars, so full of stars)

'Cause it's a future love song we cannot describe
It's just a future love song that
We cannot describe
You know, a future love song that
We can never describe
It's just a future love song that
We can never abide
We're stuck in a future
Love song, and there's no
Ending in sight
Your future