Nothing ever changes in your own backyard, so you wanna get out when you can,
You say your folks don't understand,
But if you wanna make a difference you'd better start closer to the heart, with some backyard changes.

A cause and an effect; what do you expect'
It may be more than you're able,
Ain't no hit and miss, so tell it like it is, all your cards on the table,
Six days a week and you're holed up playing hide and seek,
So far, who knows where you are'

And nothing ever changes in your own backyard, so you wanna get out when you can,
You say your folks don't understand,
But if you wanna make a difference you'd better start closer to the heart, with some backyard changes.

Pounding on the walls, say that duty calls,
You don't know where to begin though,
Outside of seventeen life's a different scene than the view from your window,
Bend 'til you break,
It's a dealer's game of give and take away few have learned to play.

But nothing ever changes in your own backyard, so you wanna get out when you can,
You say your folks don't understand,
But if you wanna make a difference you'd better start closer to the heart, with some backyard changes.

There in your own world, the same keeps coming 'round,
If you were in the real world, you swear you could turn it upside down.

But nothing ever changes in your own backyard, so you wanna get out when you can,
You say your folks don't understand,
But if you wanna make a difference you'd better start closer to the heart, with some backyard changes,
Nothing ever changes in your own backyard, so you wanna get out when you can,
You say your folks don't understand,
You wanna make a difference, then you'd better with some backyard changes.