I worked to fit in
For too many years
Adjusted but chafed
By this world and its fears
They gave you a list and taught to recite
You learned to repeat all the lists night by night
Learn and repeat, learn and repeat
I made uneasy peace
But I learned by days
In and out of space
Made for other people's ways
The chorus could change and evolve through the song
A progression of ideas explaining what's wrong
Learn and repeat, learn and repeat
Overall was it worth it?
I gained some rewards
The effort was daunting but
I enjoyed - a little warmth
They say you're a skeptic, but that carries no weight
If you only apply it to ideas they hate
Learn and repeat, learn and repeat
Then the plague came and shattered it all
While some paid attention others scoffed at it all
The contract was broken, contacts withdrawn
I never knew before how many I scorn
Learn and repeat, learn and repeat
And mocking it all as the big status quo
You walk around with a superior glow
Learn and repeat, learn and repeat
Learn and repeat, learn and repeat
Thinking is different and harder to for you
Than listening to rhetoric and choosy, choose, choose...
Learn and repeat, learn and repeat
But I fought just as hard
To survive past those years
And forge a new space
This far from those fears
