Paranoid State Lyrics

Paranoid State lyrics

If you leave the house you have to wear expensive clothes 



Or they'll say that you're up to no good 



If you look like money then you might be left alone 



These strange people don't act like they should 



You walk down that road they have to ask you where and why 



Details ready now never complain 



If you tell your story but they say it's all a lie 



You won't get enough time to explain 



Because you're living in a paranoid state 



Where they waste their time 



Spending all the money to keep you in line 



Because you're living in a paranoid state 



And the stakes are high 



They don't even know what they want to find 



They left you living in a paranoid state of mind 



If you've done nobody any harm but they're upset 



Every thing that you told them was true 



They get so uptight because they want you to forget 



Who's supposed to be working for who 



So you try to tell them what you think they want to hear 



But they're getting much harder to please 



'Cos it's all the same if they create a state of fear 



Then the cure is just like the disease 



And they watch you now, they want to charge your soul 



And they watch you now, they got you under control 



And they watch you now, because you know they should 



And they watch you now, they do it all for your good