Social Drugs

These social drugs [x3]

(Verse 1)

Afraid to address the reality before me

To proud to confess that I'm addicted to a lie

So I seek temporary feeling

To replace reality

Though the truth is telling me I have died

But I've been taught to numb it

Sedated, don't confront it

I hate it when I find out

That I can't get what I wanted

This emotional tantrum

Has become sort of an anthem playing every time I need to take a little trip

To hide this condemnation

I'll find a combination

Of man-made stimulation

To deny my situation

Now this unreality

Is distorting what I see

Reporting back to me

A sense of false security

So in my imagination

I must find a recreation

Desperately in search of ways

To alter my sensation

There's no equilibrium

Inebriated till I'm numb

Intoxicated until I'm dumb

To avoid confrontation

These social drugs

Messing with my mind

These social drugs

Telling me I'm fine

(Verse 2)

Now this chemical analogy

Is our emotional reality

These political, traditional

And ethnical stimulants

And social etiquette

Won't let us be too upset

With the way things really are

You're told to camouflage regret

In a religious structure

Tells us God wants us to suffer

To support a situation we all know is obligation

And if you shun the complication

They'll just gun your reputation

Like mob intimidation

To enforce participation

See they need to keep us fiends

To their lies and broken schemes

And if you find another means

You're told you're being too extreme

And if you wanted to get clean

They'll just pull those social strings

Holding up their social nose

Defying noble things

Now we're all stuck in tradition

Unable to state opposition

Too afraid to contradict

The expectations of the system

Oh and the harsh reality

Is they made grace for you and me

Instead of saving you and me

They're just enslaving you and me

These social drugs

These social drugs

These social drugs

These social drugs

Know what I mean

Know what I mean

These social drugs

These social drugs [7x]

Know what I mean

These social drugs

Messing with my mind

These

Telling me I'm fine

These

Messing with my head

These social drugs

Wanting me dead

Know what I mean