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

Well, 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 the 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 counterclaims

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

And the party's over

Caught in a dream

Inside this world machine (yeah)

(World machine)

(World machine, yeah)

Don't knock the system

We'll knock some sense in you (yeah)

Can't beat the system

There's nothing you can do (yeah, yeah, yeah)

Don't knock the system (ooh)

We'll knock some sense in you

Can't beat the system (ooh)

There's nothing you can do (whoa)

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh