Institute - Subordination Lyrics
1. Exhibitionism
see public schools with names like robert e. lee
want you not to see those living less fortunately
such petty exhibitionism is all they really wanted from me
instilling in me with a crippling need to succeed
such brash exhibitionism is all they wanted from me
they said "you deserve it because you've lived comfortably"
obsolescent white bread schools bred conceit
into innocent beings
they said "just show off and show us a college degree"
such petty exhibitionism is all they really wanted from me
instilling in me a crippling need to succeed
such brash exhibitionism is all they wanted from me
they said "you deserve it because you've lived comfortably"
2. Only Child
my life's been sunny - sunny and warm
since the day - that i was born
never had no brothers - an only child
the shining glisten - of my mother's eyes
as if a childhood of love could condition one for the sadness of this world
could've been born to war
as if my family bickered - as if we were poor
all i knew was comfort - comfort and warmth
i have no guilt - i have no pride
i want happiness for most human life
it's hard to say these things do stunt you but most privileges do
a world behind a curtain with no reference for pain, just a wash of good
3. Prissy Things
your played out white boy morrissey plea
a privileged thing you privileged beings
you look and you look but you never will
this shit you spin says look at me
livin' for the news that you're the hottest thing
but that shit means nothing
it's tempted me, have you seen?
but it's just fame and prissy things
have you discovered anything other than how you look with some money?
some shaky lines, obvious things
"idiot savant's insecurities"
i hope this shit won't satisfy me
this played out - vain white boy industry
so vain
4. All This Pride
through my open mouth, the system shows
weak minded bullying, that i don't wanna know
you beat your ego down as far as it goes
but watch, too far and your pride just shows
you push your ego down as far as it goes
can't be proud of how you see the world
because when you are, you ignore another's world
all these flags and all this pride...
what are you proud of?
what do you hide?
all your art school shit shit-talking
oh it got to me - god i think
narcissist - self-obsessed
above another being
ok? ok?
can you see this is not ok?
ok. ok.
pursue a freedom from pride and hate
there's no honesty
sick of the facade of fame, the facade of success
don't you know fame is just incomprehension?
the worst case of it. you're creating things only intended to be seen - not comprehended, not even conceptualized in the first place. only the honest will make it.
5. Oil Money
your system to subordinate identities different from the norm, from the straight
history as we know, wrote by you. a white man. yes? any others? no.
hand on her arm
oh we know
it's what mother learned on her favorite tv show
sexual law
wealthy class boys
fulfilling dreams of post-nuptial joys
you're social nonsense
but we hear you boast
you're a shell of love in a soulless host
you settled for marriage
or was it fear?
your children more about love than you queers
you taught me order
taught me straight
took other ways to an insecure place off my plate
bunch of lizard brains ashamed again
defining sin of the secular man
for your gain
your beady country boy eyes
all your maroon shows and your burnt orange skies
texas pride, your football schools
oil money for the few
you're the shit we despise
and your shitty little eyes
you're just shit we despise
with your shitty beady eyes
families of fear
domestic hate
communal restraints and your private estates
morality is a fashion show
archaic laws are your status quo
6. Human Law
pre-history - no human constraint
the violent catalogue of our animal brains
rejecting all conventional law
for a natural rhythm with no christian flaws
no art, no music, a tainted system
humanity rejects a primal rhythm
a madman targets the sane bourgeois
disoriented from all human law
catholic thought, you nuclears decided
a genetic aversion or fate presiding?
apocalyptic end through violence
true anarchy and genetic violence
violence, true genetic violence
it's our genes janeen
7. Too Dumb
perfectly content living in fear
sheepskin coat, sheepskin ears
took all the cues on who to be
let a beautiful world decide for me
veal, a baby calf
you cut the belly and you tear
no blood though just a bit of air
instructions with a bush and some kindling there
it's all too pretty, too soft, too immaculate to bear
too dumb
too dumb to fight the world
close-minded and i judge
prejudice is no fun
can't stand the rules cause i follow them
and social stigmas, ya they did me in
there's a brick wall to the abstinence purity brought
prodding sex for answers was bubonic thought
poking it to pop, to progress, and rot
detritus and pain all from thought
too dumb
8. Good Ol' Boys
childhood near whites with money
close to the running pack
uniformity cut and cut into my back
you wouldn't hear them say
you can't be gay
but it was just so safe to assume that'd it never really be ok
they breathe, they breathe in a comfort marred in hate
watching good ol' boys buy into a southern state
the explicit bigotry of the powers that be
with the gaul to ignore a dismantling of history
so ignorant
you, you, the bourgeois
the housewife unkowing perpetuating her mother's bigotry
the husband racism, the vile inheritance
a baton handoff hidden in daylight for my old friends
for a sense of normalcy, for comfort, for convenience
the hypocrisy!
this horrible country, the things we tolerate
your people running it accepting money with no interest in love
9. Powerstation
sexually insecure police cause violence
their means to ignore the lust inside us
ignorant men, senseless violence
sexually insecure police cause violence
in the backs of their cars
bottled up sexual tension can put you in bars
we all see what's going on
rejecting their frustration to put a costume on
we see you shaking hands with mass-killers, murderers, and rapists saying we're so proud of the work you did in florida, sandy hook, colorado
all the people scared, you put down
all the people you made feel weak
sexually insecure police cause violence
