Program lyrics - Living Colour song

We?re living like the programmed
Like tv?s our reality
We can?t escape the program
They only show us what they want us to see

Sitting in my easy chair
I?m barely breathing
Back against the wall
You lay it on me heavy
Like a, like a
Like a new whipping boy

I am the program
On the big screen
He?s gonna use me, use me up
And it?s a limited time offer with no guarantee
I?m just a sucker in this scheme

We?re living like the programmed
Like tv?s our reality
We can?t escape the program
They only show us what they want us to see

Made me insensitive
My world, my face
Don?t care how you feel
The latest gossip and the buzz online
You take up all my time


I can say what I want
Unidentified
I don?t care how you feel
It?s my agenda
I do what I want, do what I want
I don?t care who I offend


Yo I got authority hatred
Cause probably the majority is racist
Against the minority races
For the problems to be resolved
Then the races
Gonna take more than the march of Washington
State of Al Sharpton debates

Cops always harass the brothers
They like clorox bleach
Good for whites, bad for colors
So when they ask to search us
I get nervous
Cause Mike Brown was shot down
By the people hired to protect and service
Went from the lightning into a dark zone
Millions of dumb people walkin? around with a smart phone
Everybody dressing the same as y'all clones
Like we?re wearing a uniform
Being unique is as rare as a unicorn
Refuse to do the norm
And just accept yourself
Stop trying to be like everybody else
Accept yourself
You free your mind you do anything that you wish to
Ignorance is bliss I refuse to be blissful, mad


I can?t wait till it?s over
I can?t take no more
Got me runnin' in circles
Gotta get you outta my head
Gotta get you outta my head
Play it!