The Lowest Low

This ain't a coup
This ain't a riot
This ain't anything I ever knew
This ain't alive
But it's not dead yet, and it's between me and you

And I'll try to be
But I won't like to be

This ain't the world
This ain't the place I grew up in
This ain't a warm embrace
There's no smiles and there's no love here

Still I try to be
What I want the world to be
I won't dive to the darkest place
To the lowest low

This ain't the place
Where I'd want to raise my children
This ain't a race to the bottom like they'd have you suspect

I won't lie for a minute now
I won't tell you we're finished now
We're not the devil, no
We're not, no