They all want to see you humbled
The harder that you try.
The measuring sticks success.
The white picket fences
You're safe if you don't wander
Too close to the river's side.
There's danger in the land
Where killers become men.
Behind the white picket fences.

Mary tried to take her lover
Down to the see the circus lights.
He never showed. Stayed home.
Behind the white picket fences.

  I'll make the trashcan my temple
And the train tracks, my bed tonight.
Listen as the dogs howl.
And they burn daddy's gas in CowTown.
Along the white picket fences.