Big Macs for the fat, lo-cal wraps for the call centre battery hens,
Japanese snacks for the choice-spoilt
Citizens, caviar kickbacks for the citadel denizens.
Airport shoeshines servicing the suits among
The little silver stereos and hand-rolled cheroots,
First class passengers file on last after
The scum are packed in with their tax-free loot.
Checkout calamity,
You're cheated out of loyalty points,
Ten more years at this joint you'd be home & dry,
Beggars beat round the cash machines but
You just slip between them with the usual lie.
Terrible tales of kidnapped kids keep you
Focused on the family and filling up the fridge,
Neighbourhood watchers shop dole dodgers,
Stick their semis on the market & start racking up the bids.
Should you stand and fight, should you die for what you think is right
So your useless contribution will be remembered?
If you're asking me I say no, surrender.
Constant growth the cancerous cure,
A swarming race of profiteers ensure
Cheap cars for the rich,
Cheap lives for the poor,
Cheap weeks in the sun, free drinks at the door.
Puerile propaganda plugs up the TV,
Keep folk following the money so they'll never be free
Keep them swallowing the swill, the celebrities,
The paedophiles, the immigrants invading from the
Camp over the hill.
War talk, the big debate,
Footsoldiers in the capitol liberating new kinds of hate
Cum-shots of human dots caught in the
Spotlight's glare; he dies who dares.
Fatuous fast-trackers sneering at the shelf-stackers,
Little Middle-Englanders can't stand the backpackers,
Fortress Freedom, come on in, take your chances-you might win.
Should you stand and fight, should you die for what you think is right
So your useless contribution will be remembered?
If you're asking me I say no, surrender.
Sunset beaches security patrolled,
Keep out the undesirables who don't accept the code
Equal opportunity to live in total
Poverty, execute the ignorant incarcerate the slow
Car caressing managers choking up the
Avenues, brain dead patriots standing in salute
Paperwork raining again and again so that
Billionaires can claim there's an enemy to shoot
Pill pushers, doorsteppers,
Personal goal shoppers,
Lifestyle trendsetters, meditating mindbenders,
Hare-brained share sellers pumping out stocks til
You're choking on a chain-letter avalanche of dross.
God squads crawling through every country
Tracking down fools who are bullshit hungry
Blinded by divinity followers fall into
The man-traps set along the Wailing Wall.
Athletes compete in grand charades while
Tanks flatten streets and a nation laughs,
Visa holders gape at the changing guards
While creeps bribe bums to take their photographs.
Film fans flock to the latest schlock,
Blockbusters block out even the vaguest thought
Bankrupt schools grind out fool after fool
Then feed them to a system where idiots rule.
Polling booths, phone votes,
Bogus questionnaires, you get a say as if anybody cares
Joe Public doesn't want to play so
Liquidate his life as he looks the other way.
Don't get sick,
Don't get wise or they'll gut you
With a *justice* where everything is lies
March down Main Street,
Complain if you want but it's twenty
Years straight for the losers at the front.
If you're asking me I say no, surrender