We are all controlled by reinforcement or rules

Passed by those who are merely the tools of a system

Where achievement is based on deceit of the masses

By someone in whom they believe

We are all controlled by the straight-line thinking of straight-line thinkers

Who gave up drinking and smoking to avoid being lower

Than their aspirations would allow them to go

We are all controlled by fear of the unknown

Because we re not told all that there is to know

About things we consider as normal existence

So we accept exploitation and show no resistance

We are all controlled in our thoughts and our actions

By things we were told by past generations

Of parents who used to rebel just the same as we do now so who gets the blame?

We are the rebels like the rebels before us

Pre-destined to scream in an out of tune



Chorus of voices repeating the words of the past

That diffuse in the process of ageing too fast

Deep in the soul if there is one it tells you to do

As you feel not as someone outside you dictates through their own misguided conception

Of what part you must play in this game of deception