N.Y. Breaks - Paranoid I'm Paranoid (Live '85) Lyrics

Am I real or imagined
Said the genie to Aladdin
You think I'm here because you want me so bad
That's the cheapest excuse I've ever had

Make a wish or maybe three
Said big genie to little me
I was looking as significant as a dot on the mount
He said
I won't grant your wishes
Because you don't count

Paranoid that it's all paranoia
Paranoid they do it all to annoy ya
Paranoid I'm paranoid!

Everyone is out to get me
Is it paranoia?
I wanna leave but they won't let me
Is it paranoia
Paranoid I'm paranoid!

I dropped a bucket in the ocean
Didn't get nothin' but sick from the motion
Can my wishing well wish we happened
Or was I just another night on the town in Manhattan

If I kept a recorder ten paces behind
I'd catch the talk behind my back from their faces
Remind me, am I so difficult to confront

When I ask for an answer all I get is a grunt
Paranoid that it's all paranoia
Paranoid they do it all to annoy ya
Paranoid I'm paranoid

Paranoid that it's all paranoia
Paranoid they do it all to annoy ya
Paranoid I'm paranoid

Paranoid, paranoid
Paranoid (paranoid!)
I'm paranoid (I'm paranoid!)