We don't make the time to stop and reflect
 I know from first hand experience one can go delirious
 seriously it can be like that
 But before I put my foot in my mouth
 cause that's what I'm about to start talking about
 Please let me confess before all the rest
 that I'm afflicted by this addicted like most in the U.S.
 It's tough to make a living when you're an artist
 It's even tougher when you're socially conscious
 Careerism, opportunism
 can turn the politics into cartoonism
 Let's not patronize or criticize
 Let's open the door and look inside
 Pull the file on this state of denial
 [Chorus:]
 Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury
 Raise the double standard
 (2x)
 The bass, the treble
 don't make a rebel
 Having your life together does
 AMERICA
 has an image of a young one
 fast living not give an expletive
 no respect for his
 or the lives of those around him
 Suicidal, homicidal or at very least
 extremely unbridled
 How convenient for those
 who would like to destroy him
 The problem has never been our political logic
 but the way we enact it
 We can imagine a perfect society
 but can't maintain a decent relationship
 The failure found in the luxury, not in the hardship
 [Chorus:]
 Hipocrisy is the greatest luxury
 Raise the double standard