Akira The Don, Joseph Campbell - A STUFFED SHIRT lyrics

Now that’s not quite the way we educate our
Youngsters we have another idea for them
The traditional notion of
A mature adult is
A person who
Behaves as he ought to behave
Who behaves as the society has always
Asked him to behave grandpa behaved this way
So did great grandpa
And every kid who didn’t was eaten
So we all behaved this way that is to say
The adult
Is the one who accepts and represents
The order of the society
Without question this you get
In all traditional societies
Now you know what we call a person
Who behaves that way

A stuffed shirt a stuffed shirt
A person who
Behaves as he ought to behave

He has never built anything
Particular out of himself he has simply
Done as told
He’s sure of what’s right
Of what’s wrong and
That’s that now we can’t have this anymore
We don’t want it our notion
In our society today
Of an adult mind
Is a mind that accepts
Responsibility for it's own actions
That judges in terms of
Value not saying
"Oh, I want this because I like it"
But in terms of an ordered
Considered value scale
The individual is to judge
The individual is to criticize
And the individual is to represent
With courage and loyalty
His judgments

A stuffed shirt a stuffed shirt
A person who
Behaves as he ought to behave

Now this asks a lot of the society it'self
That wasn’t asked before
This also tends to shatter the idea
Of authority now that idea was formally
Validated by say it came from God
The Lord of the Universe
Ordered things this way for the society
For the society the society
The society