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