I know you think it's strange that I will not change or rearrange what I conceive or believe to be accepted by society,
It's good that ignorance is free, 'cept for eating time and energy, or man would be in poverty to feed on mediocrity,
And do you think I believe every word you said?
And do you think you control every thought in my head?
I know what you said, but I know what you meant,
Bringing it back to what I said before about being ignorant.
Take it away from the soul I never sold you,
Take it away from the lies I never told you,
Take it away, friend,
Take it away right now,
I know, I know.
I know your mind, now you know mine,
You think you're braver than me,
It's just another form of slavery.
Come impassionate,
Hate flowed by greed,
Fuel for prejudice,
What I want becomes what I need.
Primitive pseudo-intellectuals, ignorant but respectable, feeding on this inborn need to recede,
With the product of hate and the promise of green, translate the beautiful into the obscene,
And do you think I take everything you're willing to give?
And, in the end, is it better to love or to live?
I am a man created in the image of the divine,
I will not soak this soul in the living of a lie.
Take it away from the soul I never sold you,
Take it away from the lies I never told you,
Take it away, friend,
Take it away right now,
I know, I know.
I know your mind, now you know mine,
You think you're braver than me,
It's just another form of slavery.
Say you just do what you want to,
I believe it's true,
But is there anything else to do?
'Cause all there is in there is true.
No, no, we do not redefine the self to the pattern of the whole, or the flesh of the mind,
This man, rejected, redirected, does not need to be by other men respected,
I tell you, I don't need you telling me who or what I am, or supposed to be,
And united we stand with Christ for all humankind, in the image of God, not the animal.
Take it away from the soul I never sold you,
Take it away from the lies I never told you,
Take it away, friend,
Take it away right now,
I know, I know.
I know your mind, now you know mine,
You think you're braver than me,
It's just another form of slavery.
