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There's someone knockin' on my door
There's someone knockin' on my door
I think they're looking for me
I think they're looking for me
Pretend there ain't nobody home
Don't make a sound, don't even move
Don't give them nothing to see
I think they're looking for me
I got to run
I got to run
I got to run
I got to run
I got to run
There's someone crawling in my yard
There's someone creeping on my roof
There's someone tapping my phone
I feel it deep in my bones
They want to probe my intuition
They want to find out what I know
Why don't they leave me alone
Why don't they leave me alone
I got to run (It's all right)
I got to run (It's all right)
I got to run (It's all right)
Might be the catcher (It's all right)
Or the controller (It's all right)
Can't be too careful (It's all right)
I take precautions (It's all right)
They're very clever (It's all right!)
I got to run
Faceless surgeons armed with razors
Cut out our imagination
(Repeat first verse)
(repeat chorus)
Faceless surgeons armed with razors
Cut out our imagination
It's a strange thing
Deadly reason
Razors cut with such precision
Probing deep without detection
Razors never lie
But it's all right
I think they're looking for me
I think they're looking for me
I think they're looking for me
I think they're looking for meeeeeeeeeee
There's someone knockin' on my door
I think they're looking for me
I think they're looking for me
Pretend there ain't nobody home
Don't make a sound, don't even move
Don't give them nothing to see
I think they're looking for me
I got to run
I got to run
I got to run
I got to run
There's someone creeping on my roof
There's someone tapping my phone
I feel it deep in my bones
They want to probe my intuition
They want to find out what I know
Why don't they leave me alone
Why don't they leave me alone
I got to run (It's all right)
I got to run (It's all right)
Might be the catcher (It's all right)
Or the controller (It's all right)
Can't be too careful (It's all right)
I take precautions (It's all right)
They're very clever (It's all right!)
I got to run
Cut out our imagination
Cut out our imagination
It's a strange thing
Deadly reason
Razors cut with such precision
Probing deep without detection
Razors never lie
But it's all right
I think they're looking for me
I think they're looking for me
I think they're looking for meeeeeeeeeee
Song Info
Copyright
Lyrics © Bmg Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/atv Music Publishing Llc, O/b/o Distrokid
Writer
Albert, Parsons, Raven, Victor
Duration
3:26
Submitted by
golgotha On Jun 06, 2002
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It's one of Oingo Boingo's many great paranoia songs. This one in particular is of the fear that people are out to steal your creativity and ideas.
The singer here is quite paranoid, and fears that he knows something that he should not. What's really sad about this song is that since its release in 1981, fear and paranoia have only gotten worse.
I agree with the posters below, however Perfect System and Controller make me absolutely certain that Elfman read the book We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. The whole premise of the book is described perfectly by these two songs. A perfect system where people are shadowed by thought police and ultimately everyone has their "imagination excised" in a large scale operation.