Tuesday, 29 November 2011

• The Restless Cosumer-Neil Young.

   

   "The Restless Consumer"

  The people have heard the news
  The people have spoken
  You may not like what they said
  But they weren't jokin'
  
  Way out on the desert sands
  Lies a desperate lover
  They call her the "Queen of Oil"
  So much to discover
  
  Don't need no ad machine
  Telling me what I need
  Don't need no Madison Avenue War
  Don't need no more boxes I can see
  
  Covered in flags but I can't see them on TV
  
  Don't need no more lies
  Don't need no more lies
  Don't need no more lies
  Don't need no more lies
  
  The restless consumer flies
  Around the world each day
  With such an appetite for taste and grace
  
  People from around the world
  Need someone to listen
  We're starving and dying from our disease
  We need your medicine
  How do you pay for war
  And leave us dyin' ?
  When you could do so much more
  You're not even tryin'
  
  Don't need no TV ad
  Tellin' me how sick I am
  Don't want to know how many people are like me
  Don't need no dizziness
  Don't need no nausea
  Don't need no side effects like diarrhea or sexual death
  
  Don't need no more lies
  Don't need no more lies
  Don't need no more lies
  Don't need no more lies
  
  The restless consumer lies
  Asleep in her hotel
  With such an appetite
  For anything that sells
  
  A hundred voices from a hundred lands
  Need someone to listen
  People are dying here and there
  They don't see the world the way you do
  There's no mission accomplished here
  Just death to thousands
  
  A hundred voices from a hundred lands
  Cry out in unison
  
  Don't need no terror squad
  Don't want no damned Jihad
  Blowin' themselves away in my hood
  But we don't talk to them
  So we don't learn from them
  Hate don't negotiate with Good
  
  Don't need no more lies
  Don't need no more lies
  Don't need no more lies
  Don't need no more lies
  
  The restless comsumer flies
  Around the world each day
  With such an appetite for efficiency
  And pace...
  
  Don't need no more lies.

  
  
  
  

   

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