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You ask me why the disillusionment.
Tell me how to be successfUl
And I'll show you how
It contradicts the wisdom
Spoken by the wise men.
Tell me how to be successful
And I'll show you why
I despise the back-slappin,
Cowtowing ways of the winners.
Smile at the Man,
He'll give you a job.
Flatter the Man,
He'll raise your grade.
And you ask me why the disillusionment.
Some of the unlucky watch the
Death, watch the destruction of
Companions en masse.
Because they're ordered to serve.
Yet they come home to a.new war
An old war. tofherethe death
Is slower and the pain is dee~.
Society's own guerilla warfare
Tearing at their minds.
The bellyache, the glassy eyes,
Recovery from the previous night.
The Escape one fin~'S
• • • Until he passes out.
He didn't enlist in society's warfare.
Uncle Sam's warfare?
You can go to Canada.
Society's warfare?
Maybe narcotics.
