Where do you come from
Where are you going
What is your fear

What's you dream
Your disillusion
What's you solution
Or don't you care

What do your folks do
What's their religion
What is your past
Do they know your situation
The tribulations
Now, will this last

I don't wanna be no hero
I wouldn't care to wear a halo
So where to go I don't really know
Don't even wanna be a catcher in the rye

Where are you going
Where do you come from
What is your fear
What's you dream
Your disillusion
What's you solution
Or don't you care

I don't wanna be no hero
I wouldn't care to wear a halo
So where to go I don't really know
Don't even wanna be a catcher in the rye

So you're leaving us, eh?
Dropping out of school
Life is a game, you know
That one plays according to the rules

I don't wanna be no hero
I wouldn't care to wear a halo
So where to go I don't really know
Don't even wanna be a catcher in the rye

Life is not supposed to be an occupation
Seize the day, that way you'll rise to the occasion
Never asked to be a part of our equation
I'm (a) getting down with profound liberation
I don't really know just who to be
Give it time and I guess we'll just see
Don't you know it's the land of the free
I'm a gonna leave whether you do or don't agree

I don't wanna be no hero
I wouldn't care to wear a halo
So where to go I don't really know
Don't even wanna be a catcher in the rye


Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher

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