"the truth has not been in your courtroom
never has been in your courtroom

all you have is confusion in your courtroom

why do i have to stand and take the blame for your sins again?

i've spent my life in jail,
paying for you,
so that you could ride your bicycle,
have your birthday parties,
have what you call a life

you know, i never had a life

i don't even know what life is, you know:

i go to the desert,
i'm not even allowed to live in your desert

i'm no good for anything except to be used,
as your scapegoat

i'm used

every day of my life,
i've been used

when I haven't been used,
and I have been on the - on the street,
i've been chased,
robbed,
harassed,
pushed,
kicked,
my ribs have been broken

you know,
the same man that gives you a traffic ticket
is the same guy that knocks my brains out

he figures just because he's the man
nobody's gonna say anything

my daddy's not a congressman,
a doctor,
or a lawyer

... under the door
... sneaking
... sneaking everywhere

everything is sneaky up around Sneakyville

... has to be sneaky, and it's even a shame to sneak
... such an evil nasty thing

you gotta sneak to get to the truth

the truth is condemned ...

the truth has been in your reservation,
building your railroads,
emptying your garbage

the truth is in your jails,
and the young lads starting your courts or your congress
where the old sit judgement on the young

future of old George on the...
eat your father

look at the madness that goes on

you can't prove anything that happened yesterday

now is the only thing that's real

you can try to prove that Columbus sailed on that ocean,
but it's not the same ocean:
it's a different ocean

it's a different world

every day, every reality is a new reality

every new reality is a - is a new horizon,
a brand-new experience oblivion

a friend of mine
he's afraid of what he might have to do
in order to save his reality,
as I saved mine

you can't prove anything:
there's nothing to prove

every man judges himself

he knows what he is

you know what he was

i know what i am

we all know who we are

nobody can stand in judgement
like you're standing in judgement

it doesn't amount to anything

what they're doing is, they're only persecuting themselves

they're persecuting what they can't stand to look at in themselves:
the truth!

they can't stand to look at the truth in themselves so they persecute themselves

they're persecuting themselves every time they go on the freeway

they hate themselves

look at the signs:
stop,
go,
turn here,
turn there,
you can't do this,
you can't do that,
you can't,
you can't,
you can't,
this is illegal,
that's illegal,
everything's illegal

the police used to watch over the people;
now they're watching the people

the president doesn't represent the people;
he could be on the roadside picking up his children

but he isn't

he's in the White House sending them off to war

and you're saying i have to pay for this again,
and again and again

i've gotta pay for your sins

how many times have i gotta pay for your sins?

i'm getting tired
i'm getting tired"

-- epistemic reflections
by charles manson