Ode to Schizophrenia

I hear voices, voices in my head.
They tell me, show me, why THEY want me dead.
I see lightning, red lightning, in the sky.
But I'm the only one who really knows why.
Could it be, you can't see? Maybe, maybe?
You're often so quick to call me crazy.

THEY are everywhere, man. Why can't you see
That the whole frickin' world is out to get me?
It's a conspiracy, man, an elaborate plot.
I'm sure that it is, I won't believe that it's not.
Your society frightens me to no end,
Then you laugh at me and my loser friends.

The mailman, I'm sure was one of THEM.
He was watching so closely that I had to kill him.
My next door neighbor is one of THEM, too.
You're all one of THEM, you, you and you.
I can't take you watching me no more.
I'll expose you all, you power whores.

Mort Crim, Carmen Harlan, Emery King,
THEY've all been programmed to deny everything.
Every night I see them on my TV.
And they stare back, straight at me.

And the rope in my head was pulled so tight that when it went, I could hear the sound of the Snap echoing in my head for days.

Zach can't take it no more you horrible hacks.
Zach ran around naked with a fire axe.
Everyone, everyone, you're all one of THEM, man.
Zach'll kill as many of you as he possibly can.
Here come the police, Zach'll kill them too.
The uniforms turn red on the boys in blue.

They all jumped Zach and took his axe away.
They calmly told Zach "it'll be ok."
Zach has a doctor now and a padded cell.
The only voice who still talks to Zach is a man named Mel.
THEY think THEY know what Zach's about.
Zach'll kill them all as soon as he gets out.