These social drugs
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These social drugs
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These social drugs
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These social drugs
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Afraid to address
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The reality before me
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Too proud to confess
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That I'm addicted to a lie
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So I seek temporary feeling
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To replace reality
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Though the truth is telling me I have to die
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But I've been taught to numb it
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Sedate it don't confront it
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I hate it when I found out
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That I can't get what I wanted
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This emotional tantrum
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Has become sort of an anthem playing everytime I need to take a little trip
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To hide this condemnation
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I'll find a combination
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Of a manmande stimulation
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To deny my situation
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Now this unreality
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Is distorting what I see
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Reporting back to me
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A sense of false security
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So in my imagination
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I must find a recreation
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Desperately in searching ways
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To alter my sensations
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There's no equilibrium
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Inebriated till I'm numb
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Intoxicated till I'm dumb
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To avoid confrontation
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These social drugs
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Messing with my mind
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These social drugs
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Telling me I'm fine
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Now this chemical analogy
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Is our emotional reality
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These political
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Traditional
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And ethical stimulants
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And social ettiquettes
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Wont let us be too upset
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With the way things really are
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You're taught to camouflage regrets
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And those religious structures
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Tell us GOD want us to suffer
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To suppot a situation
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We all know is obligation
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And if you shun the complication
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They'll just gun your repuation
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Like mob intimidation
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To enforce participation
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See they need to keep us fiends
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To their lies and broken schemes
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And if you find another means
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You're told you're being too extreme
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And if you wanted to get clean
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They'll just pull those social strings
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Holding up their social norms
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Deifying noble things
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Now were all stuck in tradition
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Unable to state our position
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Too afraid to contradict
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The expectations of the system
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Oh and the harsh reality
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Is they've made Grace for you and me
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Instead of saving you and me
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They're just enslaving you and me!
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These social drugs
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These social drugs
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These social drugs
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These social drugs
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Know what I mean?
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Social Drugs
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| Lauryn Hill |
