Consumerism

Album: not on an album (2013)
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  • Consumerism running through them like
    A tumor in 'em
    Ageism, sexism, racism, chauvinism
    Capitalism running through them like
    The rumour business
    Separatism, skepticism, modernism, atheism
    Television running through them
    Like an organism
    Mechanism, despotism, poisoning the ecosystem
    Satanism running through them
    Like a politician
    Hedonism, hypocrism, nihilism, narcissism
    Egotism running through them
    Need an exorcism
    Situation, heathenism, adversary demonism
    To fix forms of religious
    Spontaneity's a bad decision
    Catholicism, Darwinism, barbarism, formalism
    European fetishisms
    Terrorism running through them
    On their television
    Exploitative be the saviour to
    Correct the system paranoia
    Skepticism, schizophrenic, masochism
    Escapism running through them need a sedative
    Medication, complication
    Devastation negative
    I say devastation negative
    Modernism has created modern prisons
    Neo-McCarthyisms, new colonialisms
    Pessimism mess they is in
    Hoodooism, hypnotism, egoism
    Realism, humanism, legalism
    Mysticism makes decisions from a purer prism
    Magnetism, pragmatism, altruism, pacifism
    Idealism
    Actualism, rehabilitation-ism, ostracism
    Skepticism small fish ball for recognition
    Oppressor and oppres condition
    Sex, addiction, next suspicion, vexed
    Conflict and secularism
    See, people need to villainize to
    Offset disdain for their lives
    Ugly human, ugly shame
    Corporate greed in Jesus' name
    Anarchism, self-delusions
    Victims leave with no solutions
    Impositions, superstitions
    Violence and contradictions
    False pretense and no convictions
    Compromised commercialism
    I said compromised commercialism
    Worth and vision, work for wisdom
    Full electromagnetism
    Who comes first is first position
    Rap's been missing you've been listening
    Watch the empress bless the system
    Paganism, false religion, plagiarism
    Broken system euphemism unforgiven
    Inhibition, prohibition, disconnection
    Broken wisdom
    Broken cistern can't hold wisdom
    This town needs an exorcism
    Egotism, egotism, egotism, egotism
    Egotism, egotism, egotism, egotism
    Alcoholism, fascism, rationalism
    National tension
    Journalism gone gestapoism poporazzo-ism
    As the world turns in isms
    Trust eroticism, social drugs
    Narcotics in them
    Cult existence, superstition
    Ritual materialisms, serial isms
    Habitual inferior vision consumerism

    He is, he is set to, set to
    Self-destruct, self-destruct he is, he is
    Too cool, too cool to be true

    Listen consumerism running through them like
    A tumor in 'em
    Separatism, skepticism, desperation, nepotism
    Capitalism running through the
    Montezuma in em
    Ageism, sexism, racism, fascism
    Television running through 'em
    Like an organism
    Hedonism, egoism, systematic narcissism
    To empty religious spontaneity is anarchism
    Social Darwinism, barbarism, modern paganism
    Major schizism, division, ethnoplagiarism
    Selfish business decision
    Greedy reductionism
    Obstruction of the justice
    Occupation victimizationism
    Brainwashing, mind control
    Synthetic stimulation in them
    Time control mutilating the soul
    For a business decision
    Help the people cope sell 'em
    Dope from a new trope synthetic hope
    Life spent walking on a tightrope
    Infantile masturbation, juvenile
    No education mental castration
    A generation forced to labor for a nation
    Lock the means production down
    Price reduction down
    Inflation and corruption need
    The medication now!
    They need the medication now!
    Corporate production in a state
    Of mass combustion
    Greed and lust and dangerous repercussions
    To escape the rupture they speak of rapture
    While still going after the
    Things they spiritually capture
    Distaster faster and faster and faster
    Terrorism running through them
    On their television
    Phony nationalism, dishpan Africanism
    Material hypnotisms, monopoly
    Militarist devi-isms, sadomasochisms
    Intellectual fetishisms sold on
    Computers and televisions
    Exploitative need a saviour to
    Correct the system
    Paranoia skepticism, schizophrenic mechanisms
    Escapism running through them need a sedative
    Medication, complication, situation negative
    Modernism has created modern prisons
    Neo-McCarthyisms, new colonialisms
    Pessimism makes decisions, hoodooism
    Hypnotism
    Egoism, realism, humanism, legalism
    Small fish ball for recognition
    Oppressor and oppressed condition
    Sex, addiction, vexed conflict and anarchism
    Self-delusions, victims leave with
    No solutions
    Impositions, superstitions, brutism
    Contradictions
    False pretense and no convictions
    Compromised commercialism, recognition
    Any decisions from a pure prism
    Magnetism, pragmatism, altruism, actionism
    Activism, pacifism, rehabilitation-ism
    No false sensationalism
    Aped assimilation in 'em
    Corporate cannibalism
    Psychological limitations in 'em
    No imitations, competition, gross assumption
    Parasitism, negative stimulation in 'em
    Consumerism

    He is, he is set to, set to
    Self-destruct, self-destruct he is, he is
    Too cool, too cool to be true Writer/s: ARIANE FORSTER, LAURYN HILL, PALOMA ROMERO, TESSA POLLITT, VIVIANE ALBERTINE
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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