Sick to Death

If you're hard to condition they'll give you a condition with letters by your name
It's a war of attrition and expert decisions to make sufferers feel the blame

Oppositional defiance and non compliance are now syndromes and disorders
Bogus science and a frightening alliance of discipline and doctor's orders

Dans ce pays, l'argent est important
Un compte bien garni vaut plus qu'un physique bien portant
Pourtant omnipotents beaucoup d'entre-nous sont mal partis
Trompés, trahis sans emploi dans la mère patrie
(In this country, money's important
Their bank accounts health is more important than your body's
Even though we're capable, we start on the wrong foot
Sabotaged, betrayed, unemployed in the motherland)

They've got the skills to keep you taking pills conveniently anaesthatised
But feeling more ill and with a breaking will as you've been medicalised

With a toxic cocktail good for corporate sales and keeping you disabled
Feeling you're a fail and your life's off the rails dragged down by your label

See through the mind tricks
There's no quick fix
It's the system that's sick
It's the system that's sick

Again and again you're told the problem's with your brain you gotta find ways to adjust
To the system that remains the source of all the pain but their medicine you have to trust

These pills aren't for you they've got more to do with helping authorities cope
And to renew the expert's view that troubled kids must be doped
Tu penses que je pense que tes pensées ne sont pas réfléchies
Mais quand tu diras santé, certains entendront ke-fri
La valeur marchande au détriment de la valeur humaine
Bienvenue sur ta planète ou la consommation est reine
(You think that I think that your thoughts aren't thought out
But when you say health, others hear only money
Market worth is more revered than human values
Welcome to your planet where consumerism is King)

The "side effects" make you sick and vexed so it's time to add more drugs
To keep it all in check and to keep you wrecked as your health goes down the plug

Angry or depressed there's interests that made and will keep you that way
And they know what's best when you fail all their tests, it's a professional game they play

La santé, les gens, passe au second plan
Profits et bénéfices suffisent à motiver les gens
L'amour le plus important est celui voué à la monnaie
Plus de sentiment tout n'est que conflit d'intérêts
(Health and the people are a secondary matter
Profit and benefits are the prime motivators
The most imperative devotion is the one to money
No more sentiments, they're but a conflict of interest)

See through the mind tricks
There's no quick fix
It's the system that's sick
It's the system that's sick