Hidden Instincts Lyrics - Singles - Watchtower

Music: Jarzombek, Keyser 

Lyrics: Keyser 

Maintaining a safe social order 

Is one of our system's greatest chores 

We're afraid to walk the streets alone at night 

Our society sleeps behind locked doors 

Lurking beneath the shadow's surface 

Hiding under exterior silence 

There exists in every individual 

The potential for criminal violence 

Crime after crime - conditioned criminality 

Timed after time - randomized brutality 

Reminds us we must live in fear 

As we are held prisoner by the fear of assault 

Our freedoms are compromised 

As we are held prisoner by the fear of attack 

Our freedoms are victimized 

A psychopathic killer 

A common teenage vandal 

Both victims of instincts 

They cannot handle 

A fearful population rests 

On the brink of insanity 

An unfortunate aspect of human nature 

Crime will exist as long as humanity 

Some find they must resort 

To predatory ways to survive 

Some find they must kill 

In order to stay alive