Lead the burden across my shoulders
Pour the effluent on thick
Placate, sedate, eradicate
Am I worthy to carry the weight?
Wage a war on my prone feelings
Anaesthetised and numb
Placate, sedate, eradicate
Strangely calm when I should be enraged
Placate, sedate
Placate, sedate
Eradicate
Don’t befriend the silver screen
As long as others face / firing lines
Recline, relax take it / in your stride
Be the voyeur
Tamed by rabid entertainers
Engrossed in real life hell
Placate, sedate, eradicate
Only observing — I’m exempt