Intro :
Well the n eighborhood b ully he's just one m an
His e nemies s ay he's on their l and.
They g ot him outn umbered about a million to o ne
He got n o place to es cape to n o place to r un.
He's the neighborhood b ully.
The ne ighborhood bu lly just lives to sur vive
He's crit icized and con demned for being a live.
He's not sup posed to fight b ack he's supposed to have t hick skin
He's suppo sed to lay down and die wh en his door is kicked in.
He's the neighborhood b ully.
The neighbo rhood bully b een driven out of eve ry land
He's wande red the ear th an exiled ma n.
Seen his f amily scatte red his people hounded and torn
He's alw ays on tri al for jus t being bo rn.
He's the neighborhood b ully.
Well he kn ocked out a l ynch mob he was crit icized
Old w omen condemned him said he should ap ologize.
Then h e destroyed a bo mb factory nobody was gl ad.
The bomb s were meant for him. H e was supposed to feel bad.
He's the neighborhood b ully.
Well the cha nces are agai nst it and the odds a re slim
That he'll live by the r ules that the world makes fo r him
'Cause there's a noose a t his neck and a gun at his back
And a li cense to kill him is gi ven out to every m aniac.
He's the neighborhood b ully.
He got no a llies to really speak o f.
What he get s he must pay for he don't get it out of l ove.
He buy s obsolete weapons and he won't be deni ed
But no o ne sends fles h and bloo d to fight by his s ide.
He's the neighborhood b ully.
Well he's sur rounded by pa cifists who all want peace
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must c ease.
Now t hey wouldn't hurt a fly. To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wai t for this bully to fall a sleep.
He's the neighborhood b ully.
Every empir e that's enslaved him is go ne
Egypt and Rome even the great Bab ylon.
He's m ade a garde n of paradise in the desert sand
In be d with nobo dy under no one's com mand.
He's the neighborhood b ully.
Now his hol iest books ha ve been trampled upo n
No contract h e signed was wort h what it was writ ten on.
He too k the crumbs of the w orld and he turned it into w ealth
Took sic kness and dis ease and h e turned it into h ealth.
He's the neighborhood b ully.
What's anyb ody indebt ed to him fo r?
Nothi n' they say. He just likes to cau se war.
Pride and prejudi ce and superstition ind eed
They wai t for this bu lly like a do g waits to f eed.
He's the neighborhood b ully.
What has he done to w ear so many sc ars?
Does he change the c ourse of rivers? Do es he pollute the moon and st ars?
Neighb orhood bull y standing on the h ill
Running out the cl ock time standing sti ll
Neighborhood bu lly.