State Inspector Songtext
von State Radio

Let me trip the reason of your lecture for a change
Let me tell you how you feel
Let me strap you down and put morphine in your veins
Let me share this bed of steel

′Cause here come the state inspector
So doctor all the rest and records
Truth is he really don't care less
It′s just a function of the politics and business

Oh the squalor, oh the squalor
Let it empty me
Welcome to whatever God may do
It's no secret that you'll never leave
Oh
Oh
Oh

′Cause here come the state inspector
So doctor all the rest and records
Truth is he really don′t care less
It's just a function of the politics and business


Deinstitutionalization
Had a wife but left her at the station
And there′s women in the stairwells
With a love life so farewell
Whoring themselves away in the kitchen
But look, see that woman getting all dressed up
Putting on her earrings and her makeup
And in another world there's a long necked girl
Who′s wishing she'd never been a grown up

Oh the squalor, oh the squalor
Let it empty me
Welcome to whatever God may do
It′s no secret that you'll never leave, no

Maybe today I won't get the wrong meds
And maybe today I′ll get my forty-six cents
And maybe today I′ll jump that barbed wire fence
And leave this place altogether
To a colonel or the President's men
Who′s stuck in this world locked in
Won't you do me a favor and give me ten
So I can peek into the hallway again

Oh the squalor, oh the squalor
Let it empty me
Welcome to whatever God may do
It′s no secret that you'll never leave