Fired Up

Did they always ask you why you had to act so different? So very different from all the other children What could you tell them? When they went off to try to Criticize you and chastise you Baptize you and then lobotomize you Isn't it true, ooh ooh that special school Turned you into a reverent fool Tell papa and the reverend too That they are ignorant and you disapprove They would like to Turn a subject into a citizen They will make you A patient if you take their medicine They sell you shit to make you sick That shit I sell will make you well Take two of these and break the great Satan's spell You know it's an emergency They call it a perverted dream I call it an emerging scene I say, say, can't you see They came with their catechism Calling it your condition I call that crass conditioning Oh, why ain't you listening? Reveal your hidden heritage Collect your true inheritance A veritable treasure chest opening They would like to Turn a child into a Christian I've been living without a God And these Christians don't know what they're missing Visionary dreams Ripping through the seams When we gathered around the fire The devious and weak Make insidious schemes They want to water down the fire Which is always burning Which is always burning There's witches always burning Oh! The fire! You know the type of guy Who doesn't like the light Don't want to stand beside the fire He shackles up your feet Pushes you to your knees Forbids you to receive the fire But it is always burning We keep it always burning Keep it always burning Fire! Believe me You gotta believe in a drum dream Even if seeing the death of a dumb dream Makes a man mean Mean, mean, real mean That what you're gotta be