Neighborhood Bully - Infidels Alternate Take

Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man

His enemies say he's trespassing on their land

They got him outnumbered about a million to one

He got no place to escape to, no place to run

He's the neighborhood bully

Well, the neighborhood bully just lives to survive

He's criticized for just being alive

Not supposed to fight back, supposed to have thick skin

Supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in

He's the neighborhood bully

Well, he neighborhood bully been driven out of every land

He's wandered the earth an exiled man

Seen his family scattered, people hounded and torn

He's always on trial for just being born

He's the neighborhood bully

Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized

Old women condemned him, said he should apologize

Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad

The bombs were meant for him, he was supposed to feel bad

He's the neighborhood bully

Well, the odds are against it, the chances are slim

That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him

There's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back

And a license to kill him given out to every maniac

Neighborhood bully

He got no allies to really speak of

What he gets he must buy, he don't get it out of love

He's supposed to buy weapons, that can't be denied

No one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side

Neighborhood bully

He's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace

They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease

Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly, to hurt one they would weep

They lay and they wait for the bully to go asleep

Neighborhood bully

Every empire enslaved him is gone

Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon

Made a garden of paradise in the desert sand

In a computerized world, he makes his last stand

Neighborhood bully

What's anybody indebted to him for?

"Nothing", they say, "he just likes to cause war"

Pride and prejudice, superstition indeed

Wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed

Neighborhood bully

What has he done to wear so many scars?

Can he change the course of rivers?

Does he pollute the moon and stars?

Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill

Running out the clock, time standing still

Neighborhood bully