Suicidal Tendencies Lyrics

    ------ About the song Institutionalized performed by Suicidal Tendencies

If you're here actually looking for a review for this song, try to avoid the idiots that think this has no meaning. I mostly give props to PMc, MAN, Adam, clavdivs, Bregget, matt, and Betty...
Other than them, just about every other "reviewer" is just as institutionalized as Mike Muir felt when he wrote this song.

Idiots.

    ------ About the song Institutionalized performed by Suicidal Tendencies

growing up in the 80s I got into punk and used to love this song b/c it represented the feelings of developing independence as a teen yet being trapped in a world run by mom and dad....

somewhere along the line I forgot about this song (so much for a song damaging one's life); now thanks to steve jobs I can listen to it on my personal device while working out.

yes I smoked dope and drank as a teen; but now I'm an almost 40-year old adult with a good job and a great family. its only a freaking song; identify with it--great, life gets better as you get older and mature. don't identify with it--great, keep listening to bubble gum pop and let the media tell you what to think

    ------ About the song Institutionalized performed by Suicidal Tendencies

Im sure there is a meaning, its right there all you have to do is think, just look at these lyrics, some people jus cant see past the sounds and actually understand a song

So we decided that it would be in your best interest if we put you somewhere where you could get the help that you need.” And I go “wait, what are you talking about, WE decided? MY best interests? How do you know what MY best interest is? How can you say what MY best interest is? What are you trying to say? I'M crazy? When I went to YOUR schools, I went to YOUR churches, I went to YOUR institutional learning facilities? So how can you say I'M crazy?”

So you're gonna be institutionalized.
You'll come out brainwashed with bloodshot eyes.
You won't have anything to say.
They'll brainwash you until you see their way.

I'm not crazy - IN AN INSTITUTION!!!
You're the one that's crazy - IN AN INSTITUTION!!!
You're driving me crazy - IN AN INSTITUTION!!!

They stuck me in an institution,
Said it was the only solution
To give me the needed professional help to protect me from the enemy, myself

    ------ About the song Institutionalized performed by Suicidal Tendencies

IM DEPRESSED LOOKING FOR HELP AND HERE THIS BAND TAKES UP THE GAY USELESS LISTINGS!!! WHAT A FUCKING CROCK!!!! I CANT WAIT UNTILL THEY GET SUED FOR BLOCKING THE HELP TO OTHERS LIKE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO GOOD COCK FUCKIN SUCKARS

    ------ About the song Institutionalized performed by Suicidal Tendencies

@Reviewer: Anonymous | 4/26/11

Your review sucks. For everyone who agrees with it, there are plenty of dumbasses that don't understand different forms of expression... I think your heart's gonna explode when I fucking stab you multiple times...

    ------ About the song Institutionalized performed by Suicidal Tendencies

In the 1980s there were a lot of kids that were "institutionalized" for petty things like talking back, listening to punk rock, drawing pentagrams, playing Dungeons & Dragons, and the like. Some parents believed, or were led to believe, that these were indications of Satan-worship or incipient criminality.
I knew some of these kids. I grew up in a town where one of the major employers was an institution that saw this sort of traffic.
Some of these kids were forcibly kidnaped from their own homes, denied contact with their relatives (including parents), forced to wear uniforms and sometimes locked in cells or physically abused. Almost all the ones I've spoken with were verbally abused by God-addled therapists who blamed them for putative damage to their parents for being "godless" or "satan's tools".
If you google "Back in Control Centers" you might find some interesting stories that relate to this. BICC was just one of the many organizations responsible for this sort of institutionalized child abuse.

That's what it is: institutionalized abuse of children. What are you going to do about it?

    ------ About the song Institutionalized performed by Suicidal Tendencies

When did songs start needing to be reviewed? Honestly, even if every other person in the world hates this song it will not stop me from listening to it. It is thrash, if you do not like thrash then don't listen to it. It's pretty simple people, if you don't like a song then DON'T FUCKING LISTEN TO IT. The only people who are going on to sites like this to make thoughtful comments are just trolls looking for a fight. So, fellow thrashers, if you like this song then listen to it, you do not need to convince others to like it because they never will. To everyone, being an asshole at the same time as spelling every other word incorrect just makes you look stupid.

    ------ About the song Institutionalized performed by Suicidal Tendencies

The first time I heard this song was about a year after my grandfather committed suicide. Right after his death, my parents were convinced that I was suicidal myself. I spent 3 months in an institution after they put me on the new drug, Prozac, during the late 1980's. I couldn't convince the doctors that I didn't need their drugs, I couldn't convince my parents that I was coping with the loss. I ended up giving in to them and being a good little son. When I got out of the institution and detoxed off the Prozac, I heard this song. While I believe the ST intended it as irony, I experienced the path of the song. If I screamed to my parents they might have heard me, but because I was compliant and thinking that they knew what my brain was doing better than I did, I suffered for it. I appreciate this song, it brings back memories and a high degree of anger for what the system put me through.

    ------ About the song Institutionalized performed by Suicidal Tendencies

Fuck U For Those Who Hates!
If u dont like this song,just go away you retarded people,go away ur useless people
Do not unrespecting them
I do not even care's what music that u like
The important things is RESPECT
Faggots!

(by the way this song is awesome)
(i betcha u can't sings this)

    ------ About the song Institutionalized performed by Suicidal Tendencies

Haha. XD The message of the song is rather obvious... if you think the song even has meaning, that is. Not really something that needs to be read in to. On the other hand, I agree with Bert. The song is just meant to be funny. I know I laughed when I first heard it. So, for the people bashing on this song for its lack of depth and unconventional sound, that's kind of the point. But my attempt to advertise my opinion is more than likely in vain. We're all probably going to get hit by cars anyway.