The land of do what you're told

We were raised in the land of Do What You're Told

The land of Don't Speak Up and Don't Be Bold

The land of Follow This Order and Follow That Order Too

The land of Do As We Say But Not As We Do

And someway, somehow, in a way that struck at our core

We don't seem to live in that land anymore

But maybe, just maybe, we went a little too far

When deciding we don't want to be told who we are

We were told to follow orders, that following order was good

But we were never told to think as critically as we should

How to evaluate options, and what we should do

When more than one option is presented as true

We should've learned how to recognise manipulation

How it is not weakness to think with hesitation

That life is not always game with sides that win

That you will be wrong, that's the reality we're in

We were raised in the land of Do What You're Told

We started to Speak Up, and Be Bold

That was good, but now without meaning to

We've ended up in the land of Don't Tell Me What To Do

Though it follows a very different theme, the inspiration for the title phrasing comes from Cuhmbawamaba's song of the same name