The PILL

YOUR DADDY CALLED YOU BOY AND SAID "WHAT DO YOU KNOW"?!
EVERY TIME YOU TRIED TO SPEAK HE SAID "WHAT DO YOU KNOW"?!
"I KNOW YOUR KIND"! "I SEE YOU EVERY DAY ON THE BUS AND ON MY SUBWAY LINE".
"YOU'RE JUST A TWERP"! "JUST A LITTLE TWERP"!!
"I KNOW YOUR KIND"! "DON'T THINK I DON'T KNOW YOUR KIND"!

HE DIDN'T LIKE YOUR MUSIC AND HE NEVER LIKED YOUR STYLE. HE BELITTLED EVERY THING YOU DID, CHANTING AND THE WHILE, AND SAYING WITH A SMILE... "YOU STINK LITTLE BOY"! "YOU WERE NEVER ANY GOOD TO ME"!
"GO ~ GET OUT OF MY SIGHT"! "GO ~ BEFORE I SMACK THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF YOU"!
AND UNDER HIS BREATH YOU HEARD HIM SAY... "YOU LITTLE FUCK"!

NOTHIN' YOU DID HAD NOT BEEN DONE. YOU WERE NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT HAD A LIFE BUT WANTED MORE. YOU COULDN'T COUNT ON DAD AND YOU JUST WANTED MORE. BUT, WHAT DID YOU KNOW?

KICKED AND BEATEN IN THE BASEMENT AND BELIEVING WHAT YOU HEARD, YOU INTERNALIZED IT ALL. SUDDENLY GROWING SILENT, YOU KNEW YOUR BACK WAS UP AGAINST A WALL.
NEVER HAVING AN OPINION, NEVER UTTERING A WORD. ONLY LISTENING TO THE CHORUS THAT WAS POUNDING IN YOUR BRAIN, SAYING... "WHAT DO YOU KNOW"!? "WHAT DO YOU KNOW"!?
LIKE THE ECHO OF THE RAIN, POUNDING IN YOUR BRAIN... "WHAT DO YOU KNOW ~ WHAT DO YOU KNOW ~ WHAT DO YOU KNOW ~ WHAT DO YOU KNOW"
AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHY IT'S COME TO THIS, WHY YOU'RE SEEKING GUIDANCE FROM A SHRINK UP ON "THE HILL". AND HOW YOUR LIFE COULD CHANGE WITH JUST THE TAKING OF A PILL... BUT... WHAT DO YOU KNOW?
THEY TRY TO TELL YOU "EVERYONE AROUND YOU DOES THE BEST THAT THEY KNOW HOW" "AND YOUR REACTION WAS WHAT YOU KNOW NOW... THE BEST THAT YOU KNEW HOW". 
AND THOUGH THEY BANDAGE HOW YOU THINK, THEY  CAN NEVER HEAL THE SCAR.

"I KNOW YOUR KIND"! "I SEE YOU EVERY DAY ON THE BUS AND ON MY SUBWAY LINE".
"YOU'RE JUST A TWERP"! "JUST A LITTLE TWERP"!!
"I KNOW YOUR KIND"!! "DON'T THINK I DON'T KNOW YOUR KIND"!
"WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT"? "WHAT DO YOU KNOW ~ AND JUST WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT"? "TWERP"! "TWERP"! "LITTLE TWERP"!