Hey mister, don't point at me
You spout rhetoric nonsense like a Pavlovian model
Responding to his questions
Hey teacher, arrogance is bliss
You spend your time turning water into life
As if you were God's foreman
Is it any wonder
Things seem so awry?
The masses are cloaked in confusion?
We don't have to think to survive
So nobody listens
Hey recluse, don't shout at me
You proclaim yourself expert by extension of the methods
Detailed in your magazines
Hey downer, don't prey on me
We've all got bum raps that torment us day to day
That we hoist on our own shoulders
Is it any wonder
People pass you by?
Your plea for understanding
Is heard as desparate lies?
Nobody listens
I can't help you...
Is it any wonder
Things are so inane?
So many quests for compassion
Are just for someone's personal gain
So nobody listens to youI hate you still
Yet I imitate you
You're in my dreams
Pushing me around
I move my mouth
I watch her cry
It's killing me
And you wonder why
Always said I wouldn't be that way
I always said I wouldn't be that way
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Capsized
Cut down to size
Like colors bleed
Now they're all the same to me
I feel his hand
And I know
I'm damned
A puppet on a string
And the man behind the screen
This is the last time I treat you like that
This is the last time I act like a man
This is the last time I drink myself to sleep
This is the last time I act before I think
Oh, but the things kids say
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