Social Distortion Songs - Don't Drag Me Down Lyrics

Social Distortion - Don't Drag Me Down

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Album: White Light, White Heat, White Trash
Released: 1996

Don't Drag Me Down Lyrics

Children are taught to hate, parents just couldn't wait
Some are rich and some are poor, others will just suffer more
Have you ever been ashamed and felt society try to keep you down?
I begin to watch things change and see them turn around

[Chorus:]
Turn around, they'll try to keep you down
Turn around, Turn around
Don't Drag Me Down

Ignorance like a gun in hand, reach out to the promised land
Your history books are full of lies, media-blitz gonna dry your eyes
Have you ever been afraid, and felt society try to keep you down?
I begin to watch things change see them turn around

[Chorus]

Ignorance like a gun in hand
Reach out to the promised land
Your history books are full of lies,
Media -blitz gonna dry your eyes
You're eighteen want to be a man
Your granddaddy's in the Ku Klux Klan
Taking two steps forward
And four steps back
Gonna go to the White House
And paint it black

[Chorus]

Writer/s: NESS
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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Don't Drag Me Down

Social Distortion lead singer Mike Ness said: "This is a song about ignorance and racism and the astounding fact that it still exists. This song is also about the government cover-ups and lies. When I hear the truth about our forefathers, I'm ashamed. They don't mention in school that our forefathers exterminated a whole Native American race. I experience discrimination all the time. I know what it's like to be discriminated against - being seated in the back of a restaurant because of my tattoos. It's cruel but people still judge you by the way that you look and I am reminded daily that commercial and mainstream ideals are quite different from my own."

This appears of the live album Social Distortion - Live At The Roxy. (thanks, Dan - Trenton, NJ, for above 2)