Is such a complex compilation of factors
And I always got the feeling you just liked to hear it fall off your tongue
Capitalism is the devil's wet dream
I could just as soon use the time alone
And Uncle Sam is rigging cockfights in the Promised Land
Exit Mr. Eye Contact who took his flirt and flew the coop
Preemptively pacified with history book history
But, baby, any way you slice it
And we memorize all the president's names like little trained monkeys
A de facto choice of macro or microcosmic melancholy
Unrepentantly self-centered and unfair
An' my heart beats an [unverified]
'Cuz folks just couldn't care, care, care, less, less, less
The myopia is deep here
And the CEO's are shredding files
Yes, I traded the only player that was bigger than the game
Conjugate liberty into libertarian and medicate it
Did I mention somewhere in there that I traded Babe Ruth?
Somebody say hallelujah, somebody say damnation
And I don't think I was done hearing it close to my ear
But that's a far cry, isn't it, dear?
But whatever, no matter, no fishin' trips, no fishin'
'Cuz Mamma's officially out of commission
And that's the truth
And Uncle Tom is posing for a photo op with the Oval Office clan
From acting like you're the only one there
And that knife you stuck in my back is still there
And hip-hop is tied up in the back room with a logo stuffed in it's mouth
But then I'm getting away from myself
As I get closer and closer to home
She loves me, she loves me not, she loves me, she loves me not
The same old line the confederacy used on the union
'Cuz the profit system follows the path of least resistance
So many spiny-eyed TV junkies
While the global power brokers are kept clean and discreet
But Pavlov hits me with more bad news every time I answer the phone
Yes, the goons have gone global
'Cuz the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house
And I can't even tell you why 'cuz you'd think I'm insane
Is what makes the river crooked
Who really try to realize democracy
The mind control is steep here, man
Are pouting at us from every bus stop
'Cuz "What's good for business is good for the country"
But I remember my name in your mouth
Seems to have got the best of me
An' I've been around the world now
It pinches a little when I sigh and moan
And "Big government should not stand between a man and his money"
Associate it with deregulation, privatization
And then we're spit into the world
So I play and I sing and I just let it ring all day when I'm at home
An' I must admit, today, my inner pessimist
'Cuz the Empire State building is the tallest building in New York
So I play and I sing and I just let it ring
And the music industry mafia is pimping girl power
Are flashing their toothy smiles
Makes it serpentine
And the path of least resistance
I'm thinkin' I could just as soon use the time alone
If nobody asks a question, I mean, causation by definition
Are shot with rubber bullets and gassed off the streets
Our children still take that lie like communion
A de facto choice of macro
But, baby, any way you slice it
We won't even know we're slaves on a corporate plantation
And behold, those that try to expose the reality
And these days I'm thinkin'
We start out sugared up on Kool-aid and manifest destiny
Or microcosmic melancholy
I'm thinkin' I could just as soon use
And these days I'm thinkin' I could just as soon use the time alone
All day when I'm at home
As long as every day is Super Bowl Sunday
And I can see this about America
Sniping off their sharpshooter singles from their Styrofoam towers
Enter all suckers scrambling for the scoop
Incapable of unraveling the military industrial mystery
On a whispers way to a moan
So just give me my Judy Garland drugs and let me get back to work
'Cuz all the wrong people have the power of suggestion
And the freedom of the press is meaningless
And the [unverified] and the republic rats
Behind a wall, behind a moat and that is all, that's all she wrote
And did I mention in there somewhere
That to even try, to say why, is to oversimplify
And larger than life women in lingerie
