Standard (EADGBE)

mrs. greer, your son acts up in class

 he asks the questions that your not supposed to ask

 mr. greer it?s pretty plain to see

 your son has got ADHD

and the doctors say he needs

30 milligrams of amphetamines (go!)

when i turned eight years old

 they put me on the pills

one to focus me at school

help me follow all the rules

 and one to keep my tears away

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because little boys should never cry

one help me through my day

 and one to help me sleep at night

 and i had so few memories of what it was like before

 that i took those damn pills every day since 1984.

 now i recognize the system, i see what they?re really for

 i?m not giving you my money, i won?t take them anymore.

i was in the dead-center of the country

when i popped my final pill

sold the rest of the bottle to some kids from Chicago

and turned towards something new

and for the first time in my life

i felt at peace with who i was

i couldn?t wait to share the new world out there

with all the people that i loved

and i had so few memories of what it was like before

that the first week off of the pills i felt like i had been reborn

now i recognize the system, i see what they?re really for

i?m not giving you my money, i won?t take them anymore.

 that?s when i started thinking

 about this society

 and how there?s something wrong when a kid so young?s

 put on amphetamines

 at first i blamed my parents

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then the doctors then the school

 but if you wanna fight back look higher than that

 at the filthy frat cat with the big contract

 at the puppy-killing lab the results come back

 taking science-fiction and calling it fact

 then they steal your hope and they sell it back

 and if it fucks you up they don?t give a crap

 cuz they can still drive home in their Cadillacs

 making money off a game where the decks are stacked

 and if that?s not enough, well it?s bigger than that

 it?s just one of the systems's many attacks

 on you

 so whatcha gonna do?

(spoken word)

do i have so few memories of what it was like before

that i can write this song, smoke in my lungs and a bottle on the floor?

now i recognize the system(s), i see what they?re really for

i?m not giving them my money, i won?t buy it anymore.