Song Description

Eventually, a chronic neurosis like panic or anxiety becomes such a part of life that we come to depend on them to order and structure our behavior. There comes a point where we become much more comfortable living with our disabilities than we ever could

Lyrics

There's panic in the office
And there's panic in the street
There's panic in the happy meal
You give your kids to eat

There's panic on the left
And there is panic to your right
And panic in the easy chair
Your curl into at night

Nearly drowned in desparation
You hang by the thread at the end of your rope
So you try to slow the train that is speeding in your brain
With a big fistful of hope

But still there's panic in your loneliness
And panic in the crowd
And panic in a quiet
So deafeningly loud

Just when the pills begin to kick in
And you close your eyes to feel the calm
Then your heart picks up the pace and your mind begins to race
You fear your panic may be gone

And that is when it dawns on you - an irony so tragic
You don't know how to live without your panic
Now you panic cause you fear you've lost your panic
So again you settle back... into panic