Catatonia (Thrash Version ) Video (MV)

Catatonia is a neuro-psychiatric syndrome
With mark-ed disturbance of
Movement, speech, and behavior

As I exaggerate scratching my head
Mr Bush, tell me about your day
And I gently move your arm
In a passive way

OK Mrs Francis
I have some odd requests
Limbs at ease, yer palm I'll press
Don't lift yer arm, despite my light touch
With just one finger, not that much

Now Shake my hand
"Don't shake my hand"
Shake my hand
"Don't shake my hand"
Shake my hand
"Don't shake my hand"
He ain't gonna stop,
You're catatonic, man!

Stick out your hand, I need to hit it
Stick out your tongue so I can autograph it
Followed commands without hesitation
Automatic co-operation

Excitement, immobility, mutism, staring
Posturin', catalepsy, grimacing, echolalia
Stereotypy, mannerisms, verbigeration
Rigidity, negativism, waxy flexibility

Can you say something? Are you awake?
You'll feel me try your eyes to make
Open. It seems you're not letting that occur.
Combative,
"Why did you shove me, sir?"

Oppositional paratonia
Also known as gegenhalten
Is involuntary resistance
Gegen- for against, -halten to hold

Facilitatory paratonia, Anglepoise lamp
Which is mitgehen
Is involuntary assistance
I'm with mit-, -gehen means go

Withdrawal, impulsivity, automatic obedience
Paratonia, ambitendency
Grasp reflex, not blinking, purposeless
Diaphoresis, autonomic instability

Stop copying what I do or say
Talk in your normal voice okay
"Keep arms relaxed," reposition
For resistance, tone, indecision

Waxy flexibility is offering initial resistance
Before allowing repositioning, as if bending a candle.
Vergiberation is repetition of phrases or sentences
Like a scratched record

Vergiberation
Vergiberation
Vergiberation
Vergiberation

Mannerisms are odd, purposeful movements
Abnormality inherent in act itself
Stereotypy is repetitive, non-goal-directed,
Abnormality not inherent in act but in frequency

Negativism is motiveless resistance to instructions
Or attempts at examination
Catalepsy is maintenance of postures
Ambitendency is indecisive or hesitant movement

Now Shake my hand
"Don't shake my hand"
Shake my hand
"Don't shake my hand"
Shake my hand
"Don't shake my hand"
She ain't gonna stop
You're catatonic ma'am!
Stick out your hand, I need to hit it
Stick out your tongue so I can autograph it
Followed commands without hesitation
Automatic co-operation

Benzos or E.C.T. you need
Try amantadine or memantine
If lead-pipe rigidity's displayed
N.M.S. if other signs arrayed