Social Drugs
Lauryn Hill
These social drugs x 4
Afraid to address
The reality before me
Too proud to confess
That am addicted to a lie
So I seek temporary feeling
To replace reality
Though the truth is telling me I have to die
But I’ve been taught to numb it
sedate it, don't confront it
I hate when I find out
That I can't get what I wanted
This emotional tantrum
Has become sort of an anthem playing every time I need to take a little trip
To hide this condemnation
I find a combination
Of a man made stimulation
to deny my situation
Now this beyond 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 and searching ways
To open my sensations
there’s no equilibrium
inebriated till am numb
intoxicated till am dumb
to avoid confrontation
these social drugs
messing with my mind
these social drugs
telling me am fine
these social drugs messing with my head
these social drugs
telling me am dead
now this chemical analogy
is our emotional reality
these political
and ethical stimulants
when the social etiquette
wont let us be too upset
to the way things really are
you try to camouflage regret
and our religious structures
tell us god want us to suffer
to support a situation
we all know is obligation
and if you shun a complication
they'll just gun your reputation
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
toe-tip into extreme
and if you wanted to get clean
there’s this pool of social strings
holding up their social norms
defying noble things
now were all stuck in tradition
unable to state our position
to afraid to contradict
the expectations of the system
oh and the harsh reality
is they've made Grace for you and
instead of saving you and me
they’re just enslaving you and me
these social drugs x 4
know what I mean? x 2
these social drugs x
1 comment:
Ella es buena... aunque mi favorita es "Killing me softly"...
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