In the shops and supermarket chains
The checkouts play that song again
The notes ring in, ring out the change

Laughing all the way to the stock exchange

The music keeps us happy as we choose

The products that we can't afford to use
The tokens on the packets, the percentages that drop
The ringing and the singing from the ceiling never stops


Buy the product and be free!
Live a life of luxury!

And it says so on T.V.
Every quarter of an hour


Consuming all the facts
Makes you feel you can relax
Comes neatly wrapped in packs

With ingredients on the back
So when you're sick from plastic snacks
You'll know precisely why


While you uphold the megastores
By paying what you can't afford

The man who runs the shop next door
Remembers how it was before
When personality meant something

And costumers would laugh with him
They'd smile or nod as they came in
And adverts didn't mean a thing


But now the supermarket chains
Are around your neck and purse

They sell the products to the strain
Of some long-forgotten dirge
Just loud enough to wash away

The headaches of outside
Another shopping paradise
Where god is on your side


They channel mediocrity
As life's essential quality

You're buying two to get one free
It's some thing that you'll never need
But greed and curiosity

Make you consume and let them feed