Life these days can be so complex

We don't make the time to stop and reflect

I know from first hand experience one can go delirious

seriously it can be like that

But before I put my foot in my mouth

cause that's what I'm about to start talking about

Please let me confess before all the rest

that I'm afflicted by this addicted like most in the U.S.

It's tough to make a living when you're an artist

It's even tougher when you're socially conscious

Careerism, opportunism

can turn the politics into cartoonism

Let's not patronize or criticize

Let's open the door and look inside

Pull the file on this state of denial

[Chorus:]

Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury

Raise the double standard

(2x)

The bass, the treble

don't make a rebel

Having your life together does

AMERICA

has an image of a young one

fast living not give an expletive

no respect for his

or the lives of those around him

Suicidal, homicidal or at very least

extremely unbridled

How convenient for those

who would like to destroy him

The problem has never been our political logic

but the way we enact it

We can imagine a perfect society

but can't maintain a decent relationship

The failure found in the luxury, not in the hardship

[Chorus:]

Hipocrisy is the greatest luxury

Raise the double standard