Social Drugs Lyrics

These social drugs
Messing with my mind
These social drugs
Telling me I'm fine

These social drugs
Messing with my head
These social drugs
They want me dead

Afraid to address
All the reality before me
Too proud to confess
That I'm addicted to a lie
So I seek temporary feelings
To replace reality
Though the truth is telling me I've died
But I've been taught to numb it
Sedate it don't confront it
I hate when I found out
That I can't do what I wanted
This emotional tantrum
Has become sort of an anthem playing everytime I need to take a little trip

To hide this condemnation
I'll find a combination
Of a manmande stimualtion
To deny my situation
Now because reality
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 searching ways
To open my sensations
There's no equilibrium
Inebriated till I'm numb
Intoxicated till I'm dumb
To avoid confrontation

These social drugs
Messing with my mind
These social drugs
Telling me I'm blind

These social drugs
Messing with my head
These social drugs
Telling me I'm dead

Now this chemical analogy
Is our emotional reality
These political
Traditional
And ethical stimulants
And social medicaid
Wont let us be too upset
To the way things really are
You're taught to camouflage regrets
And those religious structures
Tell us GOD want us to suffer
To suppot a situation
We all know is obligation
And if you shun a complication
They'll just gun your repuation
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 to extreme
And if you wanted to get clean
They'll just pull those social strings
Holding up their social nose
Deifying noble things

Now were all stuck in tradition
Unable to state out position
To afraid to contradict
The expectations of the system
Oh and the harsh reality
Is they've made Grace for you and me
Instead of saving you and me
They're just enslaving you and me!

These social drugs
Messing with my mind
These social drugs
Telling me I'm fine

These social drugs
Messing with my head
These social drugs
Telling me I'm dead
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