From the recording Asylum
Remembering being locked away in a mental institution
Lyrics
Hello mental masters, where were you when I was just a kid
Right now I am plastered, lithium and powder with my meals
Let me fall asleep Mrs. Mathis, I could use some peace and madness
Wake me up in time for my release (release)
Screaming in the hallways, padded rooms like fish inside a bowl
Shadows neath the doorways, fluorescent warmth can’t save us from your cold
Days dissolve from months to memories, drift away like the smoke from the chimneys
Wake me up in time for my disease
Clozapine, risperi-done
Chlorpromazine like heroin
Open wide, and show your tongue to me
lithium, carbamazepine
Haloperidol to make you feel nothing
Say ahhh, it's time to go to sleep
Laying in the white room, paralyzed like a ragdoll on the tiles
The doctor really loves me, may be why he keeps smiling at my files
Straying through the isolated wilderness
Tied down and injected to oblivion
Captive to the horror of my fiends
No hope within these walls
Foam walls so no one cries
So throw away my key
So hope can finally die
Hello Mental Masters, where were you when I was getting high
Right now I am fading, wake me up before I fall asleep inside
Please don’t make me stay here another year
I'm not crazy I’m just trying to get out of here
Wake me up in time for my reprieve
Clozapine, risperidone
Chlorpromazine like heroin
Open wide, and show your tongue to me
lithium, carbamazepine
Haloperidol to make you feel nothing
Say ahhh, it’s time go to sleep

