Did the metronome
Kill rock 'n' roll
Is the girl I'll love
Dreaming of the things that I don't?

Do you second guess
What your TV shows?
Will the man above
Save all of the ones that we won't?

At the bottom of the road, they're say

Is it really that bad?
Or do you see it like that?
Oh, is it really that bad?
Or do you see it like that?
Yeah, is it really that bad?

There's a world right here
Where the sun stays out
And the girls all shout
(Songs about the things that you love)

Oh, there's a call that rings
To a light that brings you
The finer things and
Costs you nothing at all

Where all the people in the world are saying

Is it really that bad?
Or do you see it like that?
Oh, is it really that bad?
Or do you see it like that?

When you could take a stranger's hand
And turn a fool into a friend
Or see your life under a lens
Where good things come and they don't ever end

So is it really that bad?
Just cause you see it like that

Every night I'm watching the world and seeing information
I feel I shouldn't know at my age
Somehow we're all feeding sides of a situation
They'll talk about in school one day

I've been waiting for somebody with an inclination
To say something worth time on stage
Mama thinks that that I could save our dying generation
But there's a part of me saying

Is it really that bad?
Oh yeah, you see it like that
Oh, is it really that bad?
Oh, yeah to see you like that
(Yeah, is it really that bad?)
(They're waiting for you tonight)