mrs greer your son acts up in class    he asks the questions that you're not supposed to ask    mr. greer, it's pretty plain to see    your son has got adhd    and the doctors say he needs    30 milligrams of amphetamines    (go!)    when i turned eight years old    they put me on the pills    one to focus me at school    help me follow all the rules    and one to keep my tears away    cuz little boys should never cry    one to help me through my day    one to help me sleep at night    and i had so few memories    of what it was like before    that i took those damn pills everyday    since 1994    now i recognize the system    i see what they're really for    i'm not giving you my money    i won't take them anymore    i was in the dead center of the country    when i popped my final pill    i sold the rest of the bottle    to some kids from chicago    then turned toward something new    and for the first time in my life    i felt at peace with who i was    i couldn't wait to share the new world out there    with all the people that i loved    and i had so few memories of what it was like before    the first week i went without them felt like i had been reborn    now i recognize the system i see what they're really for    i'm not giving you my money i won't take them anymore    that's when i got to thinking    about this society    and how there's something wrong    when a kid so young's put on amphetamines    at first i blamed my parents    then the doctors then the schools    but if you wanna fight back    look higher than that    at the filthy frat cat with the big contract    at those puppy killing labs    the results come back    taking science fiction and calling it fact    and if it screws you up they don't give a crap    cuz they can still drive home in their cadillacs    making money off a game where the decks are stacked    and if that's not enough it's bigger than that    that's just one of this system's many attacks on you    so what are we gonna do?    and do i have so few memories of what it was like before    that i can write this song with smoke in my lungs    and a bottle on the floor?    now i recognize those systems    i see what they're really for    i'm not giving you my money    i won't buy it anymore