Lauryn Hill / social drugs

These social drugs x 4

Afraid to address
The reality before me
Too proud to confess
That im addicted to a lie.
So I seek temporary feeling
To replace reality
Though the truth is telling me Ive died,
BUT IVE BEEN TAUGHT TO numb IT
sedate it, don't confront it
I hate when I find out
That I can't get what I wanted
This emotional tantrum
Has become sort of an anthem playing everytime i need TO TAKE A LITTLE TRIP

To hide this condemnation
I'll find a combination
Of a man made stimulation
to deny my situation
Now this beyond reality
is distorting what I see
Reporting back to me
A sense of false security

So in my imagination
I must find a recreation
DESPERATELY and SEARCHING WAYS
To alter my sensations
theres no equilibrium
inebriated till im numb
intoxicated till im dumb
to avoid confrontation

these social drugs
messing with my mind
these social drugs
telling me im fine

these social drugs
messing with my head
these social drugs
telling me im dead

now this chemical analogy
is our emotional reality
these political
traditional
and ethical stimulants
when the SOCIAL etiquette
wont let us be too upset
with the way things really are
your taught to camoflage regret
and our religious structures
tell us GOD want us to suffer
to support a situation
we all know is obligation
and if you shun a complication
they'll just gun your repuation
like mob intimidation
to enforce participation

see they need to keep us fiends
to their lies and broken schemes
and if you find another means
your told your being to extreme
and if you wanted to get clean
theres this pool of social strings
holding up their social nose
defying noble things

now were all stuck in tradition
unable to state opposition
to afraid to contradict
the expectations of the system
oh and the harsh reality
is they've made Grace for you and me
instead of saving you and me
theyre just enslaving you and me!!!

these social drugs x 4

know what i mean? x 2

these social drugs x until fade out...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• lauryn
• hill
• social
• drugs
• hiphop
• folk

[GodsS0N1]

Holy crap this is great song. I hate the system.

[StartRespectingLife]

The powers that be will not let this type of music hit mtv,bet,or vh1 because it's to blunt and truthful.They want to keep the children ignorant,miseducated,and keep them looking outside of themselves for material things to make them happy(feeding the greedy corporate monsters).

She's just to powerful

[nykkismalls]

Thanks for the lyrics Lauryn is a genius however a couple lyric corrections:

....and if u wanted to get clean they'll just PULL those social strings

holding up their social NORMS....

.....and the harsh reality is they've made GRAVES for u and me instead of saving u and me.......

[09robinsona]

sometimes I just come back to this video....maybe to remind myself what it means to be human. There are so many influences that push in different directions, sometimes they can make you forget that your living.

[carnitta2000]

Naw it didn't Run out Lauryn...they got it all <3

[kvocalist]

lauryn hill is a gem! she is needed in music right now..but not every artist sells their soul to the devil. everything lauryn does is her own reality. some find it extreme and some say their some mental issues going on. to me she is very sane and gifted! love her to bits. do your thingggg, it aint for everybody! dats life

[hevymama07]

why some of you make comments i have no idea... get a life damn if u aint feeling her why would you look her up jus to get on here and talk ignorant and retarded ass shit... some of y'all is super duper cyber space and reality based weirdos. i can tell u have a limited amount of friends and they give u a minimal of attention... NOW on to some real shit this song expresses what we thrive off and ingest everyday SOCIAL DRUGS! addicted so til now we cant live with them nor without them. damn shame!

[bendebiase]

this is the song-she has the power of true compassionate wisdom to guide us to our higher selves!

[jumpingonglass]

@FUKIUTUBE hahahahahahahahahahahah lame as a bitch. shut the fuck up

[savandika]

wow. there you all have a beautiful truth expresed trough pure art and presance of being and yet after listening to the song some of you go and do exactley the oposit of what shes singing aboute. sad:( the lyric:"let dose who have ears understand"(war in the mind) makes a lot of sence now :(