Straight-Line Thinking Songtext

von Subhumans

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 the seed to avoid being lower
Than their aspirations would allow them to go

We are all controlled

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 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 all controlled
We are all controlled
We are all controlled

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 aging too fast

But 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

We are all controlled
We are all controlled
We are all controlled