Some folks try to multiply

From sunrise to sunset

Leave behind more of their kind

So no one will forget But that ain't where I'm coming from today

Those easy girls don't turn me on anyway

I wanna know where my pride has gone

The party's over, caught in a dream

Inside this world machine Teachers teach and preachers preach

Of spiritual evolution

But this big I am from uncle Sham

Just adds to my confusion I've seen his face, I've heard his song before

But I don't care what time he's on anymore

I must have been on the streets too long

The party's over, caught in a dream

Inside this world machine I find myself outside your door

Trying to make it like before

But you don't follow what I say

And I can tell by your smile

You're no longer a child

That part of you was buried yesterday Who knows why they come

And where they go

In this world machine? It's the chosen fools who make the rules

That don't apply to me

With their fast-car games

And counter claims not my reality And I don't know if I belong today

I don't know why my friends have gone away

I must have been on the streets too long

The party's over, caught in a dream

Inside this world machine World machine, world machine

Don't knock the system

We'll knock some sense in you

Don't beat the system

There's nothing you can do, yeah, yeah Don't knock the system

We'll knock some sense in you

Don't beat the system

There's nothing you can do