Social Drugs
Lauryn Hill

These social drugs

These social drugs

These social drugs

These social drugs


Afraid to address

The reality before me

Too proud to confess

That I'm addicted to a lie

So I seek temporary feeling

To replace reality

Though the truth is telling me I have to die

But I've been taught to numb it

Sedate it don't confront it

I hate it when I found out

That I can't get what I wanted

This emotional tantrum

Has become sort of an anthem playing everytime I need to take a little trip


To hide this condemnation

I'll find a combination

Of a manmande stimulation

To deny my situation

Now this unreality

Is distorting what I see

Reporting back to me

A sense of false security


So in my imagination

I must find a recreation

Desperately in searching ways

To alter my sensations

There's no equilibrium

Inebriated till I'm numb

Intoxicated till I'm dumb

To avoid confrontation


These social drugs

Messing with my mind

These social drugs

Telling me I'm fine


Now this chemical analogy

Is our emotional reality

These political

Traditional

And ethical stimulants

And social ettiquettes

Wont let us be too upset

With the way things really are

You're taught to camouflage regrets

And those religious structures

Tell us god want us to suffer

To suppot a situation

We all know is obligation

And if you shun the complication

They'll just gun your repuation

Like mob intimidation

To enforce participation


See they need to keep us fiends

To their lies and broken schemes

And if you find another means

You're told you're being too extreme

And if you wanted to get clean

They'll just pull those social strings

Holding up their social norms

Deifying noble things


Now were all stuck in tradition

Unable to state our position

Too afraid to contradict

The expectations of the system

Oh and the harsh reality

Is they've made Grace for you and me

Instead of saving you and me

They're just enslaving you and me!


These social drugs

These social drugs

These social drugs

These social drugs


Know what I mean?


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