States of Mind

I am tireless, sub zero, comin' from the wireless

Won't be no scenery, no part of the machinery

I go on and on, but never below,

So now you see me and know

You can check it and go

'Cause I'm so bored

That I can't even pretend no more,

It's so pathetic that I'm rolling around on the floor

Laughing at one big gag

And every now and then they pull another rabbit out of the bag

of sad diversions, useless tedious excursions,

Roll into unrealistic, crypto-fascistic,

Comedy doctrine, kick the ballistics

Again and again and again, just say when

Ya had enough, sad enough or mad enough

To do something simple and kind,

Now is the time

A change of state of mind.

I am a loner, a zoner. I utilize the microphone

And if they try a tap I leave 'em hangin' on the telephone.

They're wasted, so wasted, so

They're waiting for the visitors so they can go and try again

On the next step, on the next one.

Come on and get some, jet some, static, solid-state, automatic.

Sporadic and random - 'cause nobody planned 'em.

Anarchy, free thought can't be bought,

So disregard the lessons and the *******t you've been taught.

I'm saying it and now they're playing it to me

Larger than life every day and this is what they say:

Shut your mouth and get back in line

And if you don't like it -

Well it suits us just fine.

We pull the levers

We hold the strings

And these are just a few of our favourite things.

Learn the words of the company song

"White is right is right is strong".

Come on children all sing along

'Cause if you think you can change

You were never more wrong.

No ******* that - you won't take me

You won't break me and you'll never make me

Step in line or step march in time.

Well you can violate my body but my soul is still mine.

You must think that I'm ******* stupid, man,

If you think I'm gonna hang with the program,

Some fool schedule.

I don't give a *******t about

What is or what isn't cool.

I make the rules, I stand alone

And if they try a tap I leave 'em hangin' on the telephone.

One of these days I'm gonna get sectioned,

I bet they even say it's for my own protection.

Rejection leads straight to correction.

Look out, here comes a strange injection

They've got a drug to numb my ********,

But they won't take this from me:

My state of mind.