Work and wedding
is all she's known
Lived by the golden rule since
the day she was born
Through all these troubled years
She raised a family
There was no time for tears
She's done her best, the kids are grown
She prays each day for a life of her own
Last night she disappeared,
she's joined another tribe called
Heretics and
Privateers.
He's walked this treadmill
since sixty -four
Now he shows a little gray and
they show him the door
God bless the company
For two weeks severance pay
And all that sympathy
All he believed and all he learned
What made him proud and what he
thought he had earned
Have now become his fears
He'll join the other side
The heretics and privateers
He's 21, she's just 19, ah,
but they learned a lot from what they've seen, they know
Blind obedience to the rules
Can leave you shattered,
lickin' your wounds
He holds her close,
looks at her face, he says
Chasin' the carrot is a never
-endin' race
Success at any price
Demands it's sacrifice
Some part of us will die
She says one size does not fit all
And stepping on others, well
It won't make us stand tall
Let's find the last frontier
And live another way
Like heretics and privateers
Let's make our own frontier
And raise the children there
Like heretics and privateers
Mm -hmm
Whoa -oh
Heretics and privateers
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