Temporary Sanity Lyrics - Todd Rundgren

I had such great expectations 

Of the world's benevolence 

Of benevolence 

But I prefer hallucinations 

'cause they tend to make more sense 

Than experience 

'cause it was just another sneak attack 

Of temporary sanity 

It was a pleasant stay, but now I'm back 

From temporary sanity 

My temporary sanity 

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I began to grow dependent 

On a thing called "common sense" 

It was common sense 

But my world grew so resplendent 

That the strain was too intense 

Without self-defense 

'cause it was just another sneak attack 

Of temporary sanity 

It was a pleasant stay, but now I'm back 

From temporary sanity 

My temporary sanity 

The pool spreads across the pavement 

Where the sniper made him lie 

And he looks just like my youngest 

And I'm watching him die 

I must remind myself I've seen this 

It's all ancient history 

One long trail of twisted bodies 

As the strong crush the weak 

Photos 

We must be crazy 

We are crazy 

This is our natural state 

As our children die around us 

We just sit here and wait 

For a little temporary sanity 

Some temporary sanity 

There's a chance that we would still get the picture 

If reality just came up and bit ya 

But the news team would never report it 

Because there's too much evidence to support it 

If we were stupider, the problem would vanish 

But our brains are much more than we can manage 

We say we want something so bad we can taste it 

But once we get it, then we turn 'round and waste it 

We got a twisted fixation with marketplace 

And every suffering soul is just another face 

We think we're being manipulated from outer space 

It's the collective guilty conscience of the human race 

We get joyful when we look upon a lesser man 

A specimen that we can be sure that we are better than 

There is no shortage of supply of pride and vanity 

There is no other explanation but insanity 

You're listening to prozac 

While the message goes unheard 

It's the final word 

We must be crazy 

We must be crazy 

There's no explanation 

So we must be crazy