Released on October 7, 1987

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[Intro: Tom Skid]

"Life's kinda getting outta control, I think

I don't know if you agree [?]

You know, it's like what, like what it is

Is I know you heard the word a thousand times, "it's a rat race"

You know, I went through the contortions of Hell

I have alcoholic seizures

Wind up in the hospital and everything else

Now I'm sick and I'm shaking like a leaf

It was like silly putty and they threw him in the car and beat him in the patty wagon and beat him to death

I hit one of those I and knocked the front wheel off into outer space

And I kinda got angry myself and I said, "Hahah, have a lot of guns."

I like salad, I just ate a nice salad

Baked potato and some cream cheese and chives

You know, I just, I like to eat a salad when you have something in mind

Hahahahah."


[Verse 1]

Voices inside my head are making me go mad

Now I'm afraid to sleep from nightmares that I've had

I feel I'm on the edge, I need some kind of cure

Now I've gone and killed someone, I'm mentally disturbed


[Chorus]

They can't keep me locked away

My psychiatrist says I'm okay

They think that they've got me trained

But I know I'm really deranged


[Verse 2]

Arrested for murder, my case comes to trial

Prosecution's accusing me of things sick and vile

I admit I'm guilty, but plead insanity

Six months at Bellevue, then I'm walking free


[Chorus]

They can't keep me locked away

My psychiatrist says I'm okay

They think that they've got me trained

But I know I'm really deranged


[Guitar Solos: Gary Holt / Rick Hunolt]


[Verse 3]

They want to calm me down so they feed me Thorazine

It doesn't make me calmer, it only makes me mean

Now they let me loose, back in society

With some psychiatric help and lobotomy

But I've got them fooled, I'm playing at their game

I'm more psycho than before, I don't even know my name

I know they should have killed me when they had the chance

But the system let me off with a little song and dance