Fired Up

Did they always ask you why you had to act so different?
 So very different from all the other children
 What could you tell them?
 When they went off to try to
 Criticize you and chastise you
 Baptize you and then lobotomize you
 Isn't it true, ooh ooh that special school
 Turned you into a reverent fool
 Tell papa and the reverend too
 That they are ignorant and you disapprove
 They would like to
 Turn a subject into a citizen
 They will make you
 A patient if you take their medicine
 They sell you shit to make you sick
 That shit I sell will make you well
 Take two of these and break the great Satan's spell
 You know it's an emergency
 They call it a perverted dream
 I call it an emerging scene
 I say, say, can't you see
 They came with their catechism
 Calling it your condition
 I call that crass conditioning
 Oh, why ain't you listening?
 Reveal your hidden heritage
 Collect your true inheritance
 A veritable treasure chest opening
 They would like to
 Turn a child into a Christian
 I've been living without a God
 And these Christians don't know what they're missing
 Visionary dreams
 Ripping through the seams
 When we gathered around the fire
 The devious and weak
 Make insidious schemes
 They want to water down the fire
 Which is always burning
 Which is always burning
 There's witches always burning
 Oh! The fire!
 You know the type of guy
 Who doesn't like the light
 Don't want to stand beside the fire
 He shackles up your feet
 Pushes you to your knees
 Forbids you to receive the fire
 But it is always burning
 We keep it always burning
 Keep it always burning
 Fire!
 Believe me
 You gotta believe in a drum dream
 Even if seeing the death of a dumb dream
 Makes a man mean
 Mean, mean, real mean
 That what you're gotta be