If pain was a color to paint on you Your heart would be the color blue Be a gradient from there Until your body met your hair Which remained a silver You are the one they call Jesus Christ Who didn't know no rock n' roll Just a mission, and a gun to paint rainbows in Vietnam And a heart that always told you There's madness in us all There's madness in us all So, who wrote the rules? Who wrote the rules, who wrote the rules? They said, every one of you will never try to lend a hand When the police men don't understand Boys, all you boys, you think it's so American Girls, all you girls, yeah, you're so American He may not be born of this land But he was born of this world He was born of all the mothers and the colors of our brothers And the love that was started You are the one they call Jesus Christ Who may not know no rock n' roll And there may not be a Heaven Or a place of which to send you But you know in the end There's madness in us all There's madness in us all There's madness in us all There's madness in us all So, who wrote the rules? Who wrote the rules, who wrote the rules? They said, every one of you will never try to lend a hand When the police men don't understand Boys, all you boys, you think it's so American Girls, all you girls, yeah, you're so American There's two eyes for every one of us But somebody got there first and took them all There's two eyes for every one of us But somebody got there first and took them all Man, oh man, you think it's so American Man, oh man, yeah, you're so American Man, oh man, you think it's so American Man, oh man, yeah, you're so American There's two eyes for every one of us But somebody got there first and took them all There's two eyes for every one of us But somebody got there first and took them all