Paranoid State Lyrics - Blood Or Whiskey

If you leave the house you have to wear expensive clothes 

Or they'll say that you're up to no good 

If you look like money then you might be left alone 

These strange people don't act like they should 

You walk down that road they have to ask you where and why 

Details ready now never complain 

If you tell your story but they say it's all a lie 

You won't get enough time to explain 

Because you're living in a paranoid state 

Where they waste their time 

Spending all the money to keep you in line 

Because you're living in a paranoid state 

And the stakes are high 

They don't even know what they want to find 

They left you living in a paranoid state of mind 

If you've done nobody any harm but they're upset 

Every thing that you told them was true 

They get so uptight because they want you to forget 

Who's supposed to be working for who 

So you try to tell them what you think they want to hear 

But they're getting much harder to please 

'Cos it's all the same if they create a state of fear 

Then the cure is just like the disease 

And they watch you now, they want to charge your soul 

And they watch you now, they got you under control 

And they watch you now, because you know they should 

And they watch you now, they do it all for your good