Gavin DeGraw-Medicate the Kids

One of my fav songs on the new album, especially i like the lyrics
Lyrics:

Tell 'em, "Say no to drugs"
"Substances make you dumb"
Then you say, "give 'em some"
Are you the victim
Of this experience
Child experiment
Teacher's predicament?
You're in THE SYSTEM

And if you don't walk the line
You can walk the plank
Your older brother (government)
Wants to control your mind
You're more useful blank

[Pre-chorus]
Medicate the kids
Feathers turn to quills
Pump 'em full of training fluids
Powders and pills
There's nothing you can't flush out
And nothing you can't kill

[Chorus]
Why don't you just back off of us
Before we go crazy?
I'm gonna tell you,
"No way,
This ain't fair play,
Just don't medicate me"

Tell 'em, "Say no to drugs"
"Substances make you dumb"
Unless you get 'em from
Someone who loves you
One who knows best for you
Paid for those tests for you
Knows how to get you through
When it's above you
And you can't get on top
Cause it's high to climb,
You hear them saying,
"Don't make me call the cops"
Every other time

[Pre-chorus]
[Chorus]

[Bridge]
And there's a long line
Flowing from prescription aisles
Filed through legal means
So we can alter the child
For his protection
Tie him to extension cords,
This is the age of discipline

[Chorus]

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[PlayStationVsXBOX]

I was a vicitm of this very thing. Amazingly enough years later now that I'm off of every single pill, I don't have ADD, ADHD, bi-polar disorder OR depression.

Go figure. Thanks mom and dad.

F*** YOUR PILLS!

[greenbeanie13]

49,999,998, 49,999,999, 50,000,000! ha beat you!

[codepink4]

Meant of not if.

[codepink4]

This reminds me if Animal Farm. It's a book I had to read for English class.

[FitnessMasterpiece]

That bitchass medication literally put my body in muscular dystrophy mode after taking it for a while...that experience led me to be the fitness masterpiece i am today!!

[scarred880]

This problem is infecting most all the world and I think this type of S*&^ needs to stop. For more info, check out Citizens Commission on Human Rights - they will give you an idea on what's happening around us with the mass drugging of the population.

[mygalmo]

@austenfan1160 and last #3 "The staff subjects new inmates to “mortifications of self,” which can include searches, medical examinations, head shaving, [drugging] fingerprinting, and assignment of a serial number. Once inside the walls, individuals also give up their privacy as guards or staff routinely inspect their living quarters. What this basically sums down to is a very monstrous AMERICA that we have become! What's worse? Our own gov't. allows a similar repeat to the holocaust.

[mygalmo]

@austenfan1160 Excerpt #2 . . . "The purpose of such rigid routines is resocialization, radically changing an inmate’s personality by carefully controlling the environment. Prisons and mental hospitals physically isolate inmates behind fences, barred windows, and locked doors and control their access to the telephone, computers, mail, and visitors. The institution becomes their entire world, making it easier for the staff to bring about personality change—or at least obedience—in the inmate."

[mygalmo]

@austenfan1160 Just did a study on resocialization (it's a term used for various forms of confinement, primarily inmates and psych patients) here's an excerpt #1 A final type of socialization, experienced by more than 2 million people in the United States at any one time, involves being confined—often against their will—in prisons or mental hospitals. This is "total institution" - a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society and controlled by an administrative staff

[austenfan1160]

@mygalmo if people would only start thinking for themselves instead of just believing whatever garbage the government has to say..they are not looking out for anyone's best interest.

[mygalmo]

@Buzztown101 It's ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING but also happening in other places such as Australia. I'm not sure who's got it worse Australia or the USA. The gov't. in the US doesn't give a damn about it's so called 'war against drugs' ... not when they're allowing children to be drugged like this now infants as well to "prevent" the possibility of mental disorders in the future. That's just effed up!!! It's the new era of social reform!!! But hey...only in America eh!!!

[Buzztown101]

Just want to add that the Louis Theroux documentary was shown in the UK.