Temporary Sanity - Todd Rundgren

I had such great expectations of the world’s benevolence

Of benevolence

I prefer hallucinations 'cause they tend to make more sense

Than experience

But it was just another sneak attack of temporary sanity

It was a pleasant stay, but now i’m back from temporary sanity

My temporary sanity

I began to grow dependent on a thing called common sense

It was common sense

But my world grew too resplendent that the strain was too intense

Without self-defense

The pool spreads 'cross the pavement where the sniper made him lie

And he looks just like my youngest, and i’m watching him die

I must remind myself i’ve seen this, it’s all ancient history

One long trail of twisted bodies as the strong crush the weak

We must be crazy, we are crazy, this is our natural state

As our children die around us, we just sit here and wait

For a little temporary sanity

Some temporary sanity

There’s a chance that we would still get the picture

If reality just came up and bit ya But the news team would never report it Because there’s too much evidence to support it If we was stupider the problem would vanish

But our brains are much more than we can manage

We say we want something so bad we can taste it But once we get it, then we turn 'round and waste it We got a twisted fixation with the marketplace

And every sufferin’soul is just another face

We think we’re bein’manipulated from outer space

It’s the collective guilty conscience of the human race

We get joyful when we look upon a lesser man

A specimen we can be sure that we’re better than

There is no shortage of supply of pride and vanity

There is no explanation but insanity

You’re listening to prozac while the message goes unheard

It’s the final word

We must be crazy, we must be crazy

There’s no explanation so we must be crazy