Lauryn Hill

Neurotic Society
We're living in a joke time, metaphorical coke time Commerce and guru men run the whole world, man Drunken debauchery, old world brutality Cold world kills softly, whole world runs savagely Reading into prior things, program TV screens Quick scam and drag queens, real likely to blast fiends Think twice and past dreams, crime if you ask clean Quick fast for poison has entered the blood stream Psychological master, consequences of tragedy Mythological characters, men and women is parody Superficial the vanity, borderline the insanity Out of order humanity, crime committed so passively Desperados and casualties, corporations want batteries Explanations of strategies, domination and mastery Own zones and the bankrupt grown, people so corrupt Vice lords and yellow men, junkies and popularity Culture so independent, vultures scavenge reality Past, feel the depravity, decaying social cavity Preying on human ignorance, popular immorality Sympathy, diseased head, population misled Self-indulgent past dead, absence of the God head Pimps, pushers and harlotry, nepotism, no artistry Despotism and privacy, desperation, dishonesty Physicist is your policy, more money, lesser equality Inflated global ego, imitating reality Fuel cycle pharaoh, poisonous poison arrows SongtexteHypocritical on salary, idle hands that was agency Predisposed to complacency, jealousy, audacity Contagious social gluttony, stages of mass malignancy Effort to make conception, generation in atrophy Glam life in debt, scam life in editors Byproducts of neglect, children hiding from creditors Absence of self-respect, fully scared of competitors Lifestyle of luxury at someone's expense Sensitive children, used up and sacrificed Blind to the consequence, smoked up on dope pipes Ecstasy, fast life, recklessly past life Narcotics and cash fight in this neurotic society Benefactors turned actors, addictions triple captors Experience manufactures in this neurotic toxic society It's like post-war, they looking for the commenters or who the marks is Ten thousand pictures on Facebook, it's like the pot calling the kettle narcissist Come on really, saying the devil, but you're the chief arsonist Hypocrites can't even see their own part in it No reflection, vampire paradigm, no introspection, it's star that, star grass It's a break down Three months before pure obsession, picture can't take down Children, this a shake down, they just looking for a sacrifice They been doing this since before Bobby Darin sang Mack the Knife Before James Dean's car did a jack knife Perhaps it's because they lack life or lack guts Never confuse the head with the butt Opinions are like assholes and most of 'em stink I was told by a woman, so rethink, don't ever let them ever lead you to drink Leave you to doubt, lead you to fall Get up, stand us, pass Lucifer out Shake it up baby, watch them twist it and shout Insecure assholes looking for a ticket To ride on somebody like the picket, it's fucking wicked, shame on 'em This neurotic toxic society Sick cycle psychology in desperate need of psychiatry Exorcism, sobriety, forcing social lobotomies People stuck in dichotomies, pseudo-sicko anxieties Serial criminals dressed in variety Social transvestism, subliminal dressed up as piety Transforms projections like Cartesian images Robbing innocence, stealing inheritance Quiet victims with no defense portrayed over dollars and cents Maladjusted ignorant malediction and dissonance Too much addiction, no consciousness Don't trust it, this cosmology is busted Broken returns to the dusted, stems of corruption Oppression, deceit, abuse and repeat They don't feel complete unless they're robbing the sheep Man is not a product, if you call it that, then stop it In this neurotic, godless society (Merci à aimable pour cettes paroles) Aus Songtexte Mania