Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues Lyrics

Lyric discussion by ProfessorKnowItAll 

Cover art for Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues lyrics by Kinks, The

I didn't think this was actually about schizophrenia, but rather feeling paranoid in what feels like a crazy world where we're told we're always under surveillance.

Curiously, in the post-Patriot Act America and the Department of Homeland Security apparently encouraging people to report their neighbors for suspicious activity, lines like "the milkman's a spy and the grocer keeps on following me...and the man from Social Security keeps on invading my privacy" seem all the more approrpriate.

Actually is describes the symptoms of Paranoid Schizophrenia very well though.