(I Blame) Society - Titus Andronicus

I blame society

Society’s to blame

I claim society

Is playing a hostile game

Inside my diary

I hide my private shame

And I blame society, society

Society’s to blame

I’m not sick, it’s the world that is

They’re hiding their disease behind a giant sign

It’s twice the size of life as we perceive it to be

This sign I describe, it reads, «In silence you are free»

That’s how they try to tie and tightly bind us

Reclined in our seats, oh my

They think that we are spineless

I think they are all cheats

It seems the Earth is speeding swiftly

Towards a grave catastrophe

That’s my anxiety

It’s the opposing team to my sobriety

Whose reliable defeat is no surprise to me

It’s always the same

I blame society, society

Society’s to blame

They provide a dried out dream

Lying through their teeth

I find the one thousandth of one percent

Are thriving by deceit, oh Jesus

They supply us meager feedings

While they feast in greed, oh Christ

They prescribe a violent beating

Ninety times a week, at least

They line us up in binaries for psychiatry retreats

Until they finally refine the virus that makes us obsolete

Society, society, society’s to blame

Society, society, society’s to blame

Society’s to blame

Society’s to blame

Blame, blame

Society

I’m not sick, the system is

Despicable and twisted

It’s nothing that you can fix with wishes

It tricks you with its little gifts

Then kicks you when you fuss or fidget

Picket it or be its critic

The fists will come down vigorously

Little bits of it are in your blood stream from a single visit

An isolated incident is a thing of fiction

We are all complicit

Our fingerprints all bleed

And I blame society

For poisoning the seed

That grew the vilest tree

So we could be its leaves

Inside my diary

I hide my private shame

And I blame society, society

Society’s to blame

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