ROLLINS BAND - CIVILIZED

I'm sitting in my room in your prison doing time,
bars on my windows because you got so good at crime,
standing on the corner with nothing in your head,
shirt on your back and a gun in your pants,
thinking you're the man but you're only a stand in,
standing in line to be the next bad guy,
I see what you do when you use what you got,
but what do you do when you do what you want.

You're so civilized, you get brutalized, you're so civilized, man I see you get cut down.

Getting your mind off some guy's record,
he makes his money off fools like you,
singin' about killing like it ain't no thing,
but you do the time when you live it for real,
paying his way from your Death Row cell,
you're the last one to see, you got sold out,
I hear you say you hate pigs so much,
then why the hell do you act like one.

Because you're civilized, you get brutalized, you're so civilized, man I see you get cut down.
You're so civilized, you get brutalized, you're so civilized, man I watch you get cut down.

I wonder what you're like without the gun,
I'd like to see you when you're not hiding behind the gun,
how you would live your life without the gun,
cause I know how I live mine cause you've got one,
yeah, cause that's what it is, hide behind your gun,
you take life you're just another pig to me,
you think you're different but you're just another pig, yeah a pig, yeah,
you gotta have a gun then you're just another pig to me,
you think you're different but you're just another pig,
you gotta have a gun, you a pig to me, just a pig to me,
you gotta have a gun then you're just another pig to me,
you got a gun, you're just another pig.

You're so civilized, you get brutalized, you're so civilized.

A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you, oh yeah,
a gun in your hand makes a target out of me, oh no.

Freedom? You need your freedom, you want your freedom,
your freedom is killing you man, freedom,
you can't handle freedom, hey, and now you're dying for it.

Because you're civilized, you get brutalized, you're so civilized, man I watch you get cut down.
You're so civilized, you get brutalized, you're so civilized, oh man I watch you get yourself cut down.