Used To Be

Stevie Wonder featuring Charlene

Superman was killed in Dallas

There's no love left in the palace

Someone took the Beatle's lead guitar



Have another Chivas Regal

You're twelve years old and sex is legal

Your parents don't know who or where you are



Used to be the hero of the ballgame

Took the time to shake the loser's hand

Used to be that failure only meant you didn't try

In a world where people gave a damn



Great big wars and little places

Look at all those frightened faces

But don't come here we just don't have the room



Love thy neigbors wife and daughter

Cleanse your life with holy water

You don't need to pay we've got a few



Used to be a knight in shining armor

Didn't have to own a shiny car

Dignity and courage were the measures of a man

Not the drugs he needs to hide the scar



Can you picture me?

Does your preacher pray?

Does your president have soul?

Have you heard a real good ethnic joke today?



Mama took to speed and Daddy ran away

But you must'nt lose control

Let's cut class, I got some grass

The kids are wild we just can't tame them

Do we have the right to blame them?

Pethanol are in to switch them

We've rigged their minds with television

But what the hell they're too young to feel pain



But I believe that love can save tomorrow

Believe the truth can set us free

Someone tried to tell us

But we nailed him to a cross

I guess it's still the way it used to be...