"Teenagers" lyrics

"Teenagers"

They're gonna clean up your looks with all the lies in the books
To make a citizen out of you
Because they sleep with a gun and keep an eye on you, son
So they can watch all the things you do
Because the drugs never work, they're gonna give you a smirk
'Cause they got methods of keeping you clean
They're gonna rip up your heads, your aspirations to shreds
Another cog in the murder machine

They said "All teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed"
So, darken your clothes or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me

The boys and girls in the clique, the awful names that they stick
You're never gonna fit in much, kid
But if you're troubled and hurt, what you got under your shirt
Will make them pay for the things that they did

They said "All teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed"
So, darken your clothes or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me, oh, hoo yeah!

They said "All teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed"
So, darken your clothes or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me, all together now!

"Teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed"
So, darken your clothes or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me, yeah!

"Teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed"
So, darken your clothes or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me!


Writer(s): Gerard Way, Frank Iero, Raymond Toro, Michael Way, Robert Bryar
This is the fourth and final single from the band's third studio album. It was the third single in the USA.
Gerard Way is supposedly wrote this song after having a ride in a subway car filled with high-school students. He recalled, "That was the first time I felt old... I was nervous and I was a target. I felt like I had become a parent figure or part of the problem."
The band's frontman said about gun violence, "That song almost didn't fit on the record, but it's a topic that's so important to our culture. It's about a really big problem in America where kids are killing kids. The only thing I learned in high school is that people are very violent and territorial."
The song charted at number 67 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and at number 23 on the Pop 100, where it became their highest-charting single.
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