Once you recognize the truth tell me what do you do?   It's inside of me and it's inside of you   Addicted to the sickness it's an actual fact   All I know is I hope that we're better than that   All I know is I hope that we're better than that      We try to lend a hand to help our fellow man   We cooperate enough to stay alive   But what is said and done   It's all about number oneAnd devotion to the trinity to me, myself, and I      Once you recognize the truth tell me what do you do?   It's inside of me and it's inside of you   Addicted to the sickness it's an actual fact   All I know is I hope that we're better than that      I remember once this guy   Made my girl cry   So I went to get a hammer to break his knees   Nothing came of it   Was it just macho bullshit   Or expression of the symptoms of the naked ape's disease?      And the nightmare keeps repeating   While our conciences are sleeping   Untroubled and unclean   This cool girl that I know went and had a baby   An amazing leap of faith and when I see them   She lets me hold her kid awhile   And I watch the baby smile   I thought I'd outgrown hope   But what I see there gives me reason      Once you recognize the truth tell me what do you do?   It's inside of me and it's indide of you   Addicted to the sickness its an actual fact   All I know is I hope that we're better than that   All I know is I hope that we're better than that   Oh we're better than that   Oh we're better than that   All I know is I hope that we're better than that