21st Century Paranoid Blues

copyright 2010 Dan Sullivan

Private eyes eyeballing

Everyone they meet

Sensors in the hallways

And cameras on the street

Mailmen sending tips

To the F. B. I.

Men with black binoculars

Scanning the sky

I don't mean to panic you

I'm only tellin' the truth

It ain't paranoia if they're coming after you

Judge is in his chamber

Someone wake him from his nap

There's three men in suits

And they're planting wire taps

A man on TV says

"If you break it you own it"

They listen to your calls

And you don't even know it

I don't mean to panic you

I'm only tellin' the truth

It ain't paranoia if they're coming after you

A bug on your computer

Sees every move you make

They can watch where you go

See every road you take

Satellites track you

In your home and in your car

An app on your cell phone

Tells them right where you are

I don't mean to panic you

I'm only tellin' the truth

All this paranoia and it's coming after you

Drama queens and Brahmins

Chanting in a foreign tongue

Hobos takin' No Doz

In the yard with railroad bums

They're headin' for the highways

They're leaving by train

The Bankers took the money

And they made their getaway

I don't mean to panic you

I'm only tellin' the truth

All this paranoia and it's coming after you

Houses underwater

In Detroit and New Orleans

Don't go blaming God

For what happens on the Street

No one went to prison

Who would ever believe

A jail could be so crowded

There'd be no room for those thieves

I don't mean to panic you

I'm only tellin' the truth

All this paranoia and it's coming after you

Clark Kent eyes

Pat downs and watch lists

Old ladies and babies treated

Like they're terrorists

They say we must adjust to

Those things we can't avoid

If you stand up for your rights

They'll call you paranoid

I don't mean to panic you

I'm only tellin' the truth

It ain't paranoia if they're coming after you

All this paranoia and it's coming after you

It ain't paranoia if they're coming after you