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"Institutionalized" by Suicidal Tendencies

Sometimes I try to do things and it just doesn't work out the way I want it to
and I get real frustrated, and like, I try hard and I take my time and it just doesn't work out the way it want it to, it's like I concentrate on it
real hard, and it just doesn't work out, and everything I do and everything I try it never turns out, it's like I need time to figure these things out,
there's always someone
there going, hey Mike, you know, we've been noticing you've been having a lot of problems lately you know, maybe get away, and like, maybe you should
talk about it,
you'd feel a lot better, I go no, it's ok, you know, I'll figure it out, just leave me alone, I'll figure it out myself and they go, well you know, if you wanna talk about it I'll be here you know, and you'll probably feel alot
better if you talk about it, so why don't you talk about it, I go no, I don't want to, I'm ok I'll figure it out myself, but they just keep bugging me and they just keep bugging me and it builds up inside

So your gonna be institutionalized
You'll come out brainwashed with bloodshot eyes
You won't have any say
They'll brainwash you until you see it their way

I'm not crazy- institutionalized
You're the one who's crazy- institutionalized
You're driving me crazy-institutionalized
They stick me in an institution
Said it was the only solution
To give me the need professional help
To protect me from the enemy, myself

I was in my room and I was just staring at the wall thinking about everything
but then again I was thinking about nothing, and then my mom came in and I didn't even know she was there and she calls my name and I didn't hear her and then she started screaming MIKE, MIKE, and I go what, what's the matter, and she goes what's the matter with you?
I go there's nothing wrong mom, and she goes don't give me that, you're on drugs,
I go no
mom, I'm not on drugs, I'm ok, I'm just thinking, why don't you get me a Pepsi? she goes no, you're not think, you're on drugs, normal people don't act that way, I go mom, just get me a Pepsi please, all I want is a Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me, all I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me, just one Pepsi

They give you a white shirt with long sleeves
Tied around your back, You're treated like theives
Drug you up because their lazy
It's too much to help a crazy

I'm not crazy- institutionalized
You're the one who's crazy- institutionalized
You're driving me crazy- institutionalized
They stick me in an institution
Said it was the only solution
To give me the need professional help
To protect me from the enemy, myself

I was sitting in my room and my mom and my dad came in and they pulled up a chair
and they
sat down, they go, Mike, we need to talk to you, I go okay, what's the matter? They go me, and your mom, we been noticing lately you've been having a lot of problems,
and you've been going
out for no reason, and we're afraid your gonna hurt somebody, and we're afraid your gonna hurt yourself, so we decided that it would be in your best interest if we put you
somewhere where you could get the help that you need, and I go, wait, what are you talking about, WE decided? My best interest? How do you know what MY best interest is? How can you say what MY best interest is? What are you trying to say? That I'm crazy? When I went to your schools, I went to your churches, I went to your institutional learning facilities,
So how can you say I'm crazy?

They say they're gonna fix your brain
Alleviate my suffering and my pain
But by the time they fix my head
Mentally I'll be dead

I'm not crazy- institutionalized
You're the one who's crazy- institutionalized
You're driving me crazy-institutionalized
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