What Elephant? - The Rheostat Lyrics

He can't read a roadmap
Now think about that
He needs a voice to tell him where to go
He's got rambling radio podcast opinions
To remind him what he already knows
And he is very decided
And he gets very excited
By the language on the bumper sticker
He wants a leader to lead him
But he still wants the feeling
That he's the one with his hand on the trigger
Wasting away his whole life
On the electric current
Pumping the waves through his mind
He's the conduit
So easily manipulated
So easily spent
The human the human the human
Where the human went?
Admitted to the hospital
Preparing for treatment
He's got a vial of prescription pills
He knows he must take them in a specific order
For one creates what the other kills
And when he runs out of water
That's when they call in the doctor
And strap him down to his bed
Then they go around removing
All the lights from their sockets
And screwing them into his head
Wasting away his whole life
On the electric current
Pumping the waves through his mind
He's the conduit
So easily manipulated
So easily spent
The human the human the human
Where the human went?
The saddest part of it all
Was he didn't know
He was being used
The rheostat reads his pulse
His body burns like a fuse
Lobotomized by his hand
They show him where he signed the papers
Targeted individual
They were gonna get him sooner or later
Wasting away his whole life
On the electric current
Pumping the waves through his mind
He's the conduit
So easily manipulated
So easily spent
The human the human the human
Where the human went?