Control Songtext
von Jack Flash

I′ve never been one to just bow to authority
I've always been one to question what I should

A uniform doesn′t mean that you practice honesty
And doesn't guarantee your intentions are good

Who thinks like this? If everyone does
I wonder are we scared to mention this stuff?
Or is it just a small percentage of us
Who see the world without pedestals
Where no one is a level above
And if you look
You see the world covered in a very thin dust
And if we blow it off we start to see that everything's fucked
So we let the dust settle like we′ve never been touched

To hide the fact we′re damaged goods
And that goes for the doctor, the copper, the model, the beautician
The writer, the actor, even the musician


See everyone's flawed, sealing the cracks
We put up walls from the floor to the ceiling and back
There′s no concealing the facts
If you see it you laugh
It's like life is a theatre and everything you′ve seen is an act
So go and load that webpage up
See your favourite celebrity there with no make-up
Shock horror, that's a normal girl′s face

I thought I told you that the world is a stage
I'm sorry mate, I'm just thinking aloud
In a world where they don′t want thinking allowed
I try and tell ′em

If we can't trust the media
MPs lie and the banks get greedier
Well then we′ve never needed each other more
We've never needed each other more
And if our teachers are teaching us
To keep quiet and just be obedient
Well then we′ve never needed each other more than now
And I say

And all your life they've been telling you to do as you′re told

'Cause the last thing they want is you to think on your own
In this game of control


You soon learn that everything is a scam
Deception has been around ever since there was man
Now I'm not saying everyone has a sinister plan
But if you think everyone′s innocent your head is in the sand
And it′s all part of being human
I know it's hard, the good half and evil half of me are feuding
I′m stuck in the middle feeling puzzled by a riddle
That should all be so simple but I can't see a solution
Devil on one side claiming he′s my brother
Telling me not to listen to the angel on the other

I only share that 'cause I′m sure you relate
See everybody's going through all these emotional states
'Cause we′re designed to but they′ll call you bipolar and say
That your mind's screwed and you should take five pills every day
But wait, mate, I′m only having mood swings
Surely that's a condition of being human
A side-effect of being alive
So why would you even prescribe anything I don′t need to survive?
See someone's benefitting if we′ve all gone nuts

Someone's pocket's bulging if we′re all on drugs
Now they got us all addicted to the cure

But was something even wrong? I ain′t sure
I'm sorry mate, I′m just thinking aloud
In a world where they don't want thinking allowed
I try and tell ′em

If we can't trust the media
MPs lie and the banks get greedier
Well then we′ve never needed each other more
We've never needed each other more
And if our teachers are teaching us
To keep quiet and just be obedient
Well then we've never needed each other more than now
And I say

And all your life they′ve been telling you to do as you′re told

'Cause the last thing they want is you to think on your own
In this game of control