If you leave the house you have to wear expensive clothes 
Or they'll say that you're up to no good 
If you look like money then you might be left alone 
These strange people don't act like they should 
You walk down that road they have to ask you where and why 
Details ready now never complain 
If you tell your story but they say it's all a lie 
You won't get enough time to explain 
Because you're living in a paranoid state 
Where they waste their time 
Spending all the money to keep you in line 
Because you're living in a paranoid state 
And the stakes are high 
They don't even know what they want to find 
They left you living in a paranoid state of mind 
If you've done nobody any harm but they're upset 
Every thing that you told them was true 
They get so uptight because they want you to forget 
Who's supposed to be working for who 
So you try to tell them what you think they want to hear 
But they're getting much harder to please 
'Cos it's all the same if they create a state of fear 
Then the cure is just like the disease 
And they watch you now, they want to charge your soul 
And they watch you now, they got you under control 
And they watch you now, because you know they should 
And they watch you now, they do it all for your good