Under What Influence?

We never learn We just keep on Making all the same mistakes 'Cause we know that we need them To keep on playing all the same Silly old, crappy old video-games 'Cause we know that they're not real Oh I know Progress when I see it Oh I know Lies when I hear them Oh I know Where we're going and where we've been Oh we know Nothing good A dead man said Give it to me straight Tell me the truth so I can be irate on my own On my own Let me lie here and tell me how I'll die Let me be stoned so I can mellow out on my own On my own Oh I know It's not right It's not fair Oh we know Nothing's real