Neighborhood Bully

Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man
 His enemies say he's 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
 Neighborhood bully, he just lives to survive
 He's criticized and condemned for being alive
 Not supposed to fight back, and have thick skin
 He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in
 He's the neighborhood bully
 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 chances are against it, and the odds 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
 He's the neighborhood bully
 Well, he got no allies to really speak of
 What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love
 He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied
 But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side
 He's the neighborhood bully
 Well, 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 this bully to fall asleep
 He's the neighborhood bully
 Every empire that's enslaved him is gone
 Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon
 He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand
 In bed with nobody, under no one's command
 He's the neighborhood bully
 Now his holiest books have been trampled upon
 No contract that he signed was worth that what it was written on
 He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth
 Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health
 He's the neighborhood bully
 What's anybody indebted to him for?
 "Nothing", they say, "he just likes to cause war"
 Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed
 They wait for this bully like a dog waits for feed
 Neighborhood bully
 What has he done to wear so many scars?
 Does 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