Melanie Safka - Psychotherapy lyrics

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Oh mine eyes have seen the glory of the theories of Freud,<br />

He has taught me all the evils that my ego must avoid.<br />

Repression of the impulses resuling paranoid<br />

As the id goes marching on.<br />

Glory glory psychotherapy, glory glory sexuality,<br />

Glory glory now we can be free as the id goes marching on<br />

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There was a man who thought his friends to him were all superior<br />

And this complex he imagined made life drearier and drearier<br />

Till his analyst assured him that he really was inferior<br />

As the id goes marching on.<br />

Glory glory psychotherapy, glory glory sexuality,<br />

Glory glory now we can be free as the id goes marching on<br />

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Do you drown your superego in a flood of alcohol - or something else -<br />

And go running after women till you're just about to fall.<br />

You may think you're having fun but you're not having fun at all<br />

As the id goes marching on.<br />

Glory glory psychotherapy, glory glory sexuality,<br />

Glory glory now we can be free as the id goes marching on<br />

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Oh sad is the masochism, the vagaries of sex<br />

Have turned half the population into total nervous wrecks.<br />

But your analyst will cure you, long as you can pay the cheques<br />

As the id goes marching on.<br />

Glory glory psychotherapy, glory glory sexuality,<br />

Glory glory now we can be free as the id goes marching on<br />

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Is your body plagued by aches and pains that you can't understand<br />

Compound fractures ingrown toenails, floating kidneys, trembling hands,<br />

There's a secret to your trouble: you're in love with your old man<br />

As the id goes marching on.<br />

Glory glory psychotherapy, glory glory sexuality,<br />

Glory glory now we can be free as the id goes marching on<br />

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Freud's mystic world of meaning needn't have us mystified<br />

It's really very simple what the psyche tries to hide:<br />

A thing is a phallic symbol if it's longer than it's wide<br />

As the id goes marching on.<br />

Glory glory psychotherapy, glory glory sexuality,<br />

Glory glory now we can be free as the id goes marching on.<br />