I don't claim to be a wise man I don't claim to be a saint But the world is caught on fire And we gotta do something We're gonna start a peaceful riot Put the word out on the street Nothing's gonna keep us quiet And we'll be fighting while you sleep You're a dream assassin, shooting down our hope And I bleed compassion, a piece you'll never know You're a dream assassin, your ship is going down But I breathe compassion, and we're the future We're the future, (we're the future now) We're the future, (we're the future now) The future now Yeah Like the children that we're raising One is fear and one is love When you feed the one that's hating It's gonna break the other one You gotta sin a world of fiction Mixing lies up with the truth But we're holding our conviction We are wise beyond our youth You're a dream assassin, shooting down our hope And I bleed compassion, a piece you'll never know You're a dream assassin, your ship is going down But I breathe compassion, and we're the future We're the future, (we're the future now) We're the future, (we're the future now) The future now Yeah Teacher, teacher, tell me something Something I don't know I wonder where we'll go and when there's no place left to go All a while I have been watching Yeah, I've seen you in the news Show me how to stand for something And I feel a freedom fighter's shoes Ooh You're a dream assassin, shooting down our hope And I bleed compassion, a piece you'll never know You're a dream assassin, your ship is going down But I breathe compassion, and we're the future We're the future, (we're the future now) We're the future, (we're the future now) We're the future, (we're the future now) We're the future (we're the future now) We're the future, (we're the future now) We're the future now