Institutionalized

Title: Institutionalized

VERSE

Shook from your bed at the crack of dawn
Try to enjoy your first free meal
Sit in the room with the rest of the useless
Going over your life's raw deal

All the normal ones hide in their office
You only see them when
They're going home, going home, going home!

CHORUS

You're overheard telling institutional lies
You look at life now through institutional eyes
When will you realize you're institutionalized?
Institutionalized

VERSE

Check the tv for your latest program
Check your mouth for the latest decay
You know you'll get out of here sometime
But you know it's not happening today

Saved by the blessed medication
But the waiting makes me lose my mind, lose my mind, lose my mind!

CHORUS

You're overheard telling institutional lies
You look at life now through institutional eyes
When will you realize you're institutionalized?
Institutionalized

BRIDGE

Never knew how desperate I could get
Living for that next damned cigarette

VERSE

Shuffling slowly down the endless hallway
Waiting for somebody to phone
Down my twentieth cup of coffee
Getting used to sleeping alone

They always tell me that they're here to help me
But why the hell does it hurt so much, hurt so much, hurt so much!

CHORUS

You're overheard telling institutional lies
You look at life now through institutional eyes
When will you realize you're institutionalized?

You're overheard telling institutional lies
You look at life now through institutional eyes
How does it feel now to be institutionalized?
Institutionalized
Institutionalized
Institutionalized
Institutionalized