Tea and Thorazine - Andrew Bird

Well, I can tell by the way you take your infusion

You’ve spent some time in a mental institution

What a dream, life would seem if only

They let you keep your etch-a-sketch

Eh, you laugh like a banshee, gesticulate your delirium

They treat you like a corpse, keep you full of candy lithium

What a dream life would seem if only you could see

The world from inside an etch-a-sketch

I can tell by the way you reach your conclusions

You’re the director of a mental institution

What a dream, life would seem if only

It hadn’t been for Doctor B

Animate yourself an alternate reality

Consummate a self pleasing artificiality

You can have yourself a tea

I can tell by the way you take your infusion

You’ve spent some time in a mental institution

Oh, what a dream life would seem if only you could see

The world from inside an etch-a-sketch