Eyes are open
Mind is shut
Smiles and yeses
Tired as fuck
It's not easy being sleepy
In a land full of really
Pent up people all enthused
Menial tedium I'm never not confused
About why we've all bought into this
Nothing better than biological widgets
Minds go to waste it's only our digits
They want from us
They're not to trust
The creativity we had is rust
The light we had in our soul is crushed
Not unlike our bodies on the bus
They charge us tax so now we must
Pay our dues, satisfy their lust
For all things unobtainable to us
Snakes and ladders
Fakes without manners
Playing out louder
Than mates who've had powder
A consciousness
Or a monstrousness
The only two choices and a nonsenseness
A manifesto that festers all mocked up plus
Gestures all guess work and doctored up
The infrastructure isn't structured
To connect us to each other
No adventures to discover
Only for commuters for work
This some inner city slumber
It ain't easy being sleepy
It ain't easy being sleepy
Inner city slumber
You know it's hard to stay conscious
When I have everything I need
All in my head
All in my head
You know it's hard to stay calm
When the news just vexes me
I'm all in my head
All in my head
If anything I've got it easy
So why can't everyone else have the same as me?
I tread on them without even knowing they exist
When the curtain comes down
Then I see the red mist
Then the circus comes to town
Reminds me what I'll miss
Then I just sit
A prisoner of luxury
A hypocrite of fuckery
Don't even talk to me
If I acted out my thoughts
Then I wouldn't be walking free
To have American dreams of course
You need to be asleep
Let the invidious videos creep
Into the depth of your psyche
Tattoo it with something like Nike
Make money for whitey
Crikey O'Reilly
They won't go quietly
But you should've asked politely
Now look what might be
Something mighty
Frightfully unsightly
The anger grows inside me
Like a musket ball
Don't follow my lead man I've fucked it all
If you spot the exit then rush the door
You owe it to yourself
Don't look over your shoulder
The more you get older
The more you fall to pieces
You struggle to hold on
Let's be adults
Where's your manners?
You can take the boy out the Manor
But you can't...
You know the rest
You know it's hard to stay conscious
When I have everything I need
All in my head
All in my head
You know it's hard to stay calm
When the news just vexes me
I'm all in my head
All in my head