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  Social Dynamics for the Teflon Mind

  a song

  (bellicoso)

  I’ll tell you something, just to be sure you know

  This could not be avoided, we had no choice but let you go

  All this time you’re thinking- clouds carved like cinnabar

  That’s quite the undertaking, to keep yourself removed so far

  You try to tell me secrets that I do not really want to hear

  All that voodoo mumbo, the UFO is drawing near

  You cannot paint my portrait if you stay within the lines

  And try to use less color on

  Social dynamics for the Teflon mind

  (accelerando)

  I did not see this coming, flying low beneath radar

  It’s only sound distortion, chasing dreams with my guitar

  I don’t remember when I last signed up for this race

  But of one thing I can be certain, I did not win or show or place

  I did not mean to force the issue, in fact it might be one I missed

  The item in discussion was absent from my scheduled list

  I’m a distant cousin of the product of Frankenstein

  We share a common lack of

  Social dynamics for the Teflon mind

  (con fuoco)

  H.P. Lovecraft’s reading incantations from the Book of the Necronomicon

  And the old ones take a look outside and say no thanks we’d just as soon stay gone

  This Minotaur is feeling sore, and don’t want to guard the maze no more

  I’m tired of all the bloody laundry scattered on the bedroom floor

  Bring devastation, clear the strain- erase the board and start again

  Maybe this time we’ll let the women take the reign

  Well I can curse the time and tide that left me stranded here inside

  Another victim of resisted suicide

  It only stands to reason that I should be the one left behind

  Special re-education in

  Social dynamics for the Teflon mind

  (a tempo- diminuendo)

  You think you’re really something and I guess it’s true and what you are

  Outside the institution but never wandering out too far

  There’s monsters in the closet and creatures lurk beneath your bed

  No fear of mutilation, it’s better than this plastic

  Non-stick

  Head