Paranoid State

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