Lyrics CONFORMITY - Akira the Don

Rollo May
The distinguished psychiatrist
Wrote a wonderful book called
Man's Search for Himself
And in this book he says

The opposite of courage
In our society
Is not cowardice
It is conformity
Conformity
The opposite of courage
In our society
Is not cowardice
It is conformity
Conformity

And there you have the trouble today
Conformity
People acting like everyone else
Without knowing why
Without knowing where they're going
Now think of it
In America right now
There are over 14 million people
65 years of age and over
And about 13 million of these 14 million
Are broke
They're dependent on someone else
For life's necessities
Now, we learn to read
By the time we're seven
We learn to make a living
By the time we're 25
And yet, by the time we're 65
We haven't learned
How to become financially independent
In the richest land
That has ever been known
Why
We conform
We conform
We conform

The opposite of courage
In our society
Is not cowardice
It is conformity
Conformity
The opposite of courage
In our society
Is not cowardice
It is conformity
Conformity

And the trouble is
That we are acting like the wrong percentage group
The 95% who don't succeed
Now, why do these people conform
Well, they don't know really
These people believe
That their lives are shaped by circumstances
By things that happen to them
By exterior forces
They're outer-directed people
A survey was made one time
That covered a lot of men
Working men
These men were asked this question
Why do you work
Why do you get up in the morning
19 out of 20 had no idea
If you ask them, they'll say
Everyone goes to work in the morning
And that's the reason they do it
Because everyone else is doing this

The opposite of courage
In our society
Is not cowardice
It is conformity
Conformity
The opposite of courage
In our society
Is not cowardice
It is conformity
Conformity

Is this what they did to you?
Is this how they tried to break you?
Till they got what they were after?
In your heads must still be the remnant of a brain
In your hearts must still be the desire
To be a human being again

Why
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