There's a place in the world for the angry young man
With his
working class ties and his radical plans
He refuses to bend, he
refuses to crawl,
He's always at home with his back to the wall.
And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost,
And he
struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross-
And he likes to be
known as the angry young man.
Give a moment or two to the angry young
man,
With his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.
He's
been stabbed in the back, he's been misunderstood,
It's a comfort to
know his intentions are good.
And he sits in a room with a lock on
the door,
With his maps and his medals laid out on the floor-
And he likes to be known as the angry young man.
I believe I've
passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage
I found that just
surviving was a noble fight.
I once believed in causes too,
I had my pointless point of view,
And life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
And there's
always a place for the angry young man,
With his fist in the air and
his head in the sand.
And he's never been able to learn from
mistakes,
So he can't understand why his heart always breaks.
But
his honor is pure and his courage as well,
And he's fair and he's
true and he's boring as hell-
And he'll go to the grave as an angry
old man.
