There Stood the Fence

There stood the fence that penned me in when I was younger This was the house where we all stayed There was a tree we used to hang out under This was the place where I played But now that's gone so I have to wonder Is it worth the price we pay? A long range test has put us under And made us go away, go away... This was the town where all my friends and I had grown up The only place I've ever known A long gray street with some houses built on it Less than perfect but it was home Now it's gone and I curse it in my darkness This is the cross I have to bear We pay the price of our own injustice We made us go nowhere Go nowhere, nowhere This was our earth our garden of Eden Took what we could and left her there bleeding And what became of the hopes and the dreams Did they die with us 'cause that's how it seems Here comes the rain can't you taste the acid? Or has it left you numb? This is the moral to the story I offer Can you hear me son... Or have you gone away Away Away --- There Stood the Fence - Toxik