Oingo Boingo Insanity Lyrics

I'm so sorry, please forgive me
Who do I pray to to straighten out this problem
Straighten out this problem
Straighten out my mind
Straighten out this crooked tongue...
My mind has wandered
From the straight and narrow
My mind has wandered from the flock, you see?
My mind has wandered, the man just said so
My mind has wandered, I heard it on TV
And the flock has wandered away from me now

All around the world, now
Like a big bright cherry cloud
Travelling from home to home
TV sets and telephones
Here it comes just like a storm
Bathe in it and be reborn
Time to let the world know
Welcome, madness, say hello
Say hello, say hello
Like a wave we cannot see
Washing over you and me
Hiding here and hiding there
Madness hiding everywhere
Such a curiosity
Here it comes to set us free
Plenty left for you and me
Say hello, insanity

I am the virus, are you the cure?
I am morally, I'm morally impure
I am a disease and I am unclean
I am not part of God's well-oiled machine
Christian nation, a__imilate me
Take me in your arms and set me free
I am part of a degenerate elite
Dragging our society into the street, yeah
Into the abyss and to the sewer, don't you see?
The man just told me, he told me on TV

Do you think you're better than me?
Do you want to kill me or befriend me?

And the alcoholic b______ waved his finger at me
And his voice was filled with evangelical glee, now
Sipping down his gin and tonics
While preaching about the evils of narcotics
And the evils of s__, and the wages of sin
While he mentally fondles with his next of kin
'Cause my mind has wandered
From the flock, you see
And the flock has wandered away from me
And he waved his hypnotizing finger at me

Let's imitate reality
Let's strive for mediocrity
Let's make believe we're all the same
Let's sanitize our little brains

I'd love to take you home with me
And tuck you into bed
I'd love to see what makes you tick
Inside your pretty head
I'd love to hear you laugh tonight
I'd love to hear you weep
I'd love to listen to you
While you're screaming in your sleep

Christian sons, Christian daughters
Lead me along like a lamb to the slaughter
Purify my brain and hose down my soul
White perfection, perfection is my goal

Do you think you're better than me?
Do you want to kill me or befriend me?

Christian nation, make us all right
Put us through the filter
And make us pure and white
My mind has wandered from the flock, you see
And the flock has wandered away from me

Let's talk of family values
While we sit and watch the slaughter
Hypothetical abortions on imaginary daughters
The white folks think they're on top
Ask any proud white male
A million yeas of evolution, we get Danny Quayle

Let's imitate reality, insanity
Let's strive for mediocrity, insanity
Let's make believe we're all the same, insanity
Let's sanitize our little brains, insanity

I'd love to take you home with me
I'd love to tuck you in
I wish I could protect you from the wages of our sin
I'd love to hear you scream tonight
I'd love to hear you cry
Protect you from a madness
That it raining from the sky

Let's imitate reality, insanity
Let's strive for mediocrity, insanity
Let's make believe we're all the same, insanity
Let's sanitize our little brains, insanity

I'd love to take you home with me
And tuck you into bed
I'd love to see what makes you tick
Inside your pretty head
I wish that I could keep you
In a precious Chinese box
On Sundays I would pray for you
So it would never stop
I'd love to hear you laugh tonight
I'd love to hear you weep
I'd love to listen to you
While you're screaming in your sleep

I'd love to soothe you with my voice
And take your hand in mine
I'd love to take you past the stars
And out of reach of time
I'd love to see inside your mind
And tear it all apart
To cut you open with a knife
And find your sacred heart
I'd love to take your satin dolls
And tear them all to shreds
I'd love to mess your pretty hair
I'd love to see you dead

Say hello... say hello... say hello...