Asylum

To the ones that we’ve forgotten and labelled as insane

In institutions rotting secret mars of family shame

Bound tightly and injected

Subdued by pill regimes

Suspended animation

Pull the rug over the stain

Mistreated and molested

Fed food not fit for pigs

If we’re to call them human beings why treat their lives as shit?

No chance of contribution to well-oiled society

Viewed as manure walking wastes of very air we breathe

Rejected disavowed

Buried beneath our shallow smiles

What do they mean for us and what do they deserve?

Four padded walls – their coffins

Underfunded understaffed

In a putrid squalor wallow while the rich and perfect have a laugh

Sons and daughters

Brethren and kin

Sisters and brothers from pictures are trimmed

Out of our sight, out of our minds

Where is the kindness on which this world prides?

This is the coldest song a voice could ever sing

It’s destined to come out wrong

We’ve done the damnedest things

Oh, the humanity

Denial so disgusting

A life shackled rusting

And business is booming

We’re vampires and should be ashamed

At birth found unequal

A real living freak show

Throw them in a cell and forget their existence is pain

What a shame

A shrine unto torment

To minds deemed delinquent

Place holding placation

The voiceless damnated can’t scream

Can you hear them scream?

Mistreated and molested

Fed food not fit for pigs

If we’re to call them human beings why treat their lives as shit?

No chance of contribution to well-oiled society

Viewed as manure walking wastes of very air we breathe

Sons and daughters

Brethren and kin

Sisters and brothers from pictures are trimmed

Out of our sight, out of our minds

Where is the kindness in our humankind?

This is the coldest song a voice could ever sing

It’s destined to come out wrong

We’ve done the damnedest things

Oh, the humanity