Lauryn Hill - Neurotic Society (Compulsory Mix) lyrics

[Verse 1] We're living in a joke time, metaphorical coke time Commerce and girl men Run the whole world men Bold, drunken debauchery Old world brutality Cold world k**ed softly Whole world run savagely Greedy men and pride fiends Program TV screens Quick scam and drag queens Real life's been blasphemed Think twice its past dream Crime if you ask clean Quick fast the poison has entered the blood stream Psychological ma**acre Consequences are tragedy Mythological characters Men and women as parody Superficial the vanity Borderline the insanity Out of order humanity Crime committed so pa**ively/randomly Desperados and casualties Corporations want batteries Explanations and strategies Domination and mastery Owned, jonesing and bankrupt Grown people so corrupt Vice lords and yellow men junkies of popularity Culture so in dependence Vultures scavenge reality Past feeling, depravity Decaying social cavity Preying on human ignorance Popular immorality Symptoms of diseased head Population misled Self indulgent, past dead Absence of the God head Pimps, pushers and harlotry Nepotism no artistry Despotism and piracy Desperation, dishonesty Business decision policy More money lesser quality Inflated global ego, imitating reality Pseudo psycho new Pharaoh Poisonous bows and arrows Hypo critics on salary Idle hands devil's agency Predisposed to complacency Jealousy and audacity Contagious social gluttony Stages of ma** malignancy Epidemic deception Generation in atrophy Glam life in debt Scam life and editors Bi products of neglect Children hiding from creditors Absence of self respect Phony scared of competitors Lifestyle of luxury At someone's expense Sensitive children used up as sacrifice Blinded to consequence Smoked up in dope pipes Ecstasy, fast life, recklessly pa** life Narcotics and cash fight this neurotic society Benefactors turned actors Addiction's crippled captives Experience manufactured In this neurotic, toxic society [Verse 2] It's like post war they're looking for the communists or who the Marxist is 10,000 pictures on Facebook That's like the pot calling the kettle narcissist Come on really Saying the devil but you're the chief arsonist Hypocrites can't even see their own part in this No reflection Vampire paradigm No introspection This star that star rants has a breakdown 3 months before, pure obsession, picture can't take down Children it's a shake down They're just looking for a sacrifice They've been doing this since before Bobby Darrin sang Mack the Knife Before James Dean's car did a jack knife Perhaps because they lack life or lack guts Never confuse the head with the bu*t Opinions are like a**holes and most of them stink I was told by a woman so rethink Don't ever let them to lead you to drink Lead you to doubt Lead you to fall Get up stand up (And) cast Lucifer out Shake it up baby Watch them twist and then shout Insecure a**holes just looking for a ticket To ride on somebody Like the Pick It It's f**ing wicked Shame on a 'nuh' This neurotic, toxic society! Sick psycho psychology In desperate need of psychiatry Exorcisms, sobriety Forcing Social lobotomies People stuck in dichotomies Pseudo sicko anxieties Serial criminals dressed in variety Social transvestism Subliminal dressed up as piety Transference, projections Like Cartesian images Robbing innocence Stealing inheritance Quiet victims with no defense Betrayed over dollars and cents Maladjusted and ignorant Mal addiction and dissonance Too much addiction no consciousness Don't trust it This cosmology's busted, broken And returns to the dust It stinks of corruption Oppression, deceit Abuse in repeat They don't feel complete Unless they're misleading/robbing the sheep Man is not a product if you call him that then stop it! In this Neurotic, dominant society