Superman was killed in Dallas
There's no love left in the palace
Someone took the Beatles' lead guitar

Have another Chivas Regal
You're twelve years old and sex is legal
Your parents don't know where
or who you are

Used to be the hero of the ball game
Took the time to shake the loser's hand
Used to be that failure only meant you
didn't try
In a world where people gave a damn

Great big wars in little places
Look at all those frightened faces
But don't come here
We just don't have the room

Love thy neighbor's wife and daughter
Cleanse your life with holy water
We don't need to bathe,
we've got perfume

Used to be a knight in shining armor
Didn't have to own a shiny car
Dignity and courage were the measure of a man
Not the drugs he needs to hide the scar

Can you teacher read
Does your preacher pray
Does your president have soul
Have you heard a real good ethnic joke today

Mama took her speed
Daddy ran away
But you mustn't lose control
Let's cut a class, I got some grass
The kids are wild we just can't tame'em
Do we have the right to blame'em

We fed'em all our indecision
Raped their minds with television
But what the hell, they're too young to
feel pain

I believe that love can save tommorrow
I believe the truth can make us free
Someone tried to say it
And we nailed him to a cross
I guess it's still the way
It used to be

Charlene/Stevie Wonder 1982

never a truer word spoken...too bad many so many of today's artists are trying to sing like stevie when what they need is to learn how to write quality material like him

AprilMichelle said:

Charlene and Stevie Wonder sung the song.
It was actually written by Miller, Ron and Hirsch.Us Motown 1650F, released October 1982.

But you bring up a good point.This generations writers really come up short on content.Very few good social songs these days even with all of the social problems.

This is a bad song,nothing about vampires.