(I Blame) Society

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 that'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
 And 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 you
 Bloodstream from a single visit, an isolated incident
 Is a thing of fiction, we're 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