Struck A Nerve – Bad Religion – letras

there’s an old man on a city busholding a candy caneand it is’nt even christmashe see’s a note in the obituarythat his last friend has diedthere’s an inflant clingingto his overweight mother in the coldas they go to shop for cigarettesas the spends her last dollaron a bottle of vodka for tonightand i guess it struck a nervelike i had to squint my eyesyou can never get outof the line of sightlike a barren winter dayor a patch of unburned greenlike a tragic real dreami guess it struck a nerveevery day i wanderin negative dispositionas i’m bombarded by superlativesrealizing very wellthat i am not aloneintrovertedi look to tomorrow for salvationbut i’m thinking altruistcallyand a wave of overwhelming doubtturns me to stoneand i guess it struck a nervesend a murmor thought my heartwe just haven’t got timeto crack the mazelike a magic speeding clockor a cancer in our cellsa collision in the darki guess it strunk a nervei try to close my eyesbut i cannot ignore the stimuliif theres a purpose for us allit remains a secret to medon’t ask me to justify my life