Lyrics

Levittown

At school, in the hall
Closed our eyes and faced the wall
As if this magic trick could save us
From an atomic fireball

In our bones we knew it must
Someday soon all turn to dust
We had no superman to save us
And no grown-ups we could trust

Broken girls
Broken boys
Broken dreams
We’re all broken toys

At dinnertime we
would watch black and white TVs
Shows with perfect, happy families
That we could never be

And from church to the mall
We soon saw through it all
How neither Christ nor cash can save us
When we really fail and fall.

Broken boys
Broken girls
From our broken homes
In a broken world

Learned to drink
Hard and fast
Pissed that nothing ever lasts
Sure no one could ever love us
With all the damage in our past

So when it all falls apart
We’ll say we knew if from the start

Broken girls and broken boys with broken dreams and broken hearts.