Lauryn Hill Social Drugs Lyrics

Social Drugs Lyrics

These social drugs

Messing with my mind

These social drugs 

Telling me im fine



These social drugs

Messing with my head

These social drugs

They want me dead



Afraid to address

All the reality before me

Too proud to confess

That im addicted to a lie

So I seek temporary feelings

To replace reality

Though the truth is telling me I should die, no

BUT IVE BEEN TAUGHT TO LOVE IT

But they just don't confront it 

I hate when I found out 

That I can't do what I wanted

This emotional tantrum

Has become somewhat of an anthem playing FOR TIME TO TAKE A LITTLE TRIP



To hide this condemnation

I find a compilation

Of a manmande stimualtion

to deny my situation

Now because reality

is distorting what I see

Reporting FACTS THAT LEAD

A sense of false security



So in my imagination

Oh I must find a recreation

DESPERATELY SEARCHING WAYS

To open my sensations

theres no equilibrium

inebriated till im numb

intoxicated till im dumb

to avoid confrontation



these social drugs

messing with my mind

these social drugs

telling me im blind



these social drugs

messing with my head

these social drugs

telling me im dead



now this chemical analogy

is our emotional reality

these political

traditional

and ethical stimulants

when the SOCIAL MEDICAID

wont let us be too upset

to the way things really are

in DARKENED CAMOFLAUGE we pray

and those religious structures

tell us GOD want us to suffer

to suppot a situation 

we all know is obligation

and if you shun an obligation

they'll just gun your repuation

like mob intimidation

to enforce participation



see they need to keep us fiends

to their lies and broken dreams

and if you find another means 

toe-tip into the stream

and if you wanted to get clean

theres this pool of social streams

holding up their social GOLD

deifying noble things



now were all stuck in tradition

unable to state out position

to afraid to contradict

the expectations of the system

oh and the harsh reality

is they've made Grace for you and me

because

theyre just enslaving you and me!!!



these social drugs

messing with my mind

these social drugs

telling me im fine



these social drugs

messing with my head

these social drugs

telling me im dead