IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT

 

I'm sorry Mama, I don't want to do this,

But they won't just let me be who I am.

I've pleaded and begged them to leave me in peace,

But I think they won't until I move like them.

 

Think like them,

Mimic their ways till I think I'm them,

Come on board so I sink with them,

From the poisoned well have a drink with them.

 

You taught me to never be afraid to say 'no', 

Even if it makes you feel lonely,

It's saving your soul,

So now that they're in invading my home,

It is making me go

 

 

 

I'm sorry mamma I don't want to fight.

In the still of the night,

In the still of the night.

 

They made me an outlaw by taking my rights.

In the still of the night,

In the still of the night.

 

Please hide my baby and please hide my wife.

In the still.

 

Cause it will get dark before it will get light.

In the still of the night.

 

 

 

I'm sorry Mama, I don't want to fight,

I tried to be nice,

it might not suffice.

 

They wanted to see you some ID,

Which I said I don't need, cause I'm free.

Look at me!

 

I'm at wit's end,

If we are in the same ship then,

How come we don't cover the same distance?

How come our destination's different?

Could it be that the ship's just figment?

The colors on your flag just pigment?

And you wonder why I say fuck the system.

Not just this one.

Every single one since the Egyptians.

 

 

 

In the still of the night.

I'm sorry Mama, I don't want to fight.

 

 

Please my peeps,

Can't we just get along peacefully?

Without me having to think equally,

And you saying I could always leave?

You see, that is certainly not what it means to be free,

Not even close, 

In fact it is freedom you're trying to steal from me.

Sneakily.

 

Whenever you are forcing me to heed your creed,

Believe in these preachy geeks,

What they say is never what they seem to mean,

Feels to me like demon speech.

Listen:

The opposite of when a true teacher speaks.

Brief and sweet.

 

 

 

I'm sorry Mama, I don't want to do this,

But they won't just let me be who I am.

I've pleaded and begged them to leave me in peace,

But I think they won't until I move like them.

 

 

I'm sorry mamma I don't want to fight.

In the still of the night,

In the still of the night.

 

They made me an outlaw by taking my rights.

In the still of the night,

In the still of the night.

 

Please hide my baby and please hide my wife.

In the still.

 

Cause it will get dark before it will get light.

In the still of the night.