Take the strain! Can you take it?


Take the strain! Or even fake it?


Take the strain! Aren't we lucky


Take the strain! To be breathing?





Take the strain!





Are you the man in the next bed


Without the tubes, without the life support?


Maybe the man whose pockets weigh you down





Take the strain! Do you wear strife


Take the strain! Like a clown?


Take the strain! Or accumulate


Take the strain! With a frown?





Take the strain!





Are you the animal


That escapes the snares and traps?


Bearing no quarry scars, and the hunter's crown





We were taught to follow leaders - follow leaders!


Never to challenge the singular pack


The goals they set slip the grasp - slip our grasp!


Chasing tails without the basic facts





Choose full pain, voilate, make the grade


Taut wires frey, electro-brain, take the strain!





We were taught to follow leaders - follow leaders!


Never to challenge the singular pack


The goals they set slip the grasp - slip our grasp!