Pegged for Life

Pegged for Life

Faction
(album: No Hidden Messages)

I can´t help being the way that I am
It´s not paranoia, it´s Uncle Sam
The minute I was born they´ve had my prints
They use intimidation as their biggest hint
The boys at the capitol they know who you are
Everything about you is on a little white card
S.S. numbers, now you´re pegged for life
A life under their watchful little eyes
I went to school, I didn´t know why
Then I found out only later in life
I wasn´t there to learn like I had thought
I was being baby sat, that´s what I was taught
We pay them cash to live in a free land
Why don´t they just charge us all to stand
I sit in my room at night wondering what they see
I also wonder what they have in store for me.