New Songs::Post 1 - The Milgram Experiment

This is the 1st post in a series of 8 or 9 we'll be doing leading up to our 1st show. We'll be unveiling all new songs during the set, and wanted to give you a chance to get familiar with the concept/lyrics before hearing them live. The 1st song we are introducing is called "The Milgram Experiment."

Lyrically, I think this is my favorite song to date. For those of you that are unfamiliar, The Milgram Experiment was a psychological study conducted back in the 1960's that was intended to test how obedient humans are to authority. You can read about it in more detail here wikipedia:The Milgram Experiment

I remember learning about this in my social psychology class back in college, and I've always been fascinated with it. It combines 2 ideas that really interest me - 1) how easily we can be manipulated (regardless of how much we think we can't be), while at the same time 2) how we find a way to defer ownership of something we did wrong. The concept behind it fit in really well with the rest of the stuff I had been writing, so I wanted to try and make a song out of it. I'm really happy with how it came out:


THE MILGRAM EXPERIMENT

Up goes the voltage, it increases
I'm told its part of the procedure and I must go on.
The subject screams and I can feel it
pierce through my soul but I proceed with this cruel torture

Take control and make me believe that
my actions are not really me
I follow orders out to a "T"
so it's not my fault.

4 times I said "I can't continue"
4 times I'm countered with a reason that's so shallow
My crime, I fell into submission
Convinced myself it wasn't me that did them harm

Take control and make me believe that
my actions are not really me
I follow orders out to a "T"
so it's not my fault.

You built a drone
You built a slave
who's only mission is just to obey
But I'm the only one to blame
cuz I'm the person that choose to behave.

Entire lives full of morals get pushed aside because of what?
Simply because you told me so?

A fraud, a fraud, a fraud, a fraud
proved I'm a pawn, a pawn, a pawn, a pawn

You built a drone
You built a slave
who's only mission is just to obey
But I'm the only one to blame
cuz I'm the person that choose to...

Take control and make me believe it.