Brainwash for Profit
Brainwash for Profit
by The Capitalist Hippie Complex
Verse I
Corporate America - the land of corruption
Of forest destruction, Hummer combustion
All about the dollar, not the towns you’re crushin,
Never bout the nuclear waste you’re dumpin,
Gotta beat the Germans, the Japs and Russians
Gotta be the best, no interruptions
We live in the land of the… nothing is free
You and me, controlled by fear and TV
They gotta do research and see
How to make us brainwashed by three
From products made by GE
To the propagods at Disney
They’ve got ya wrapped around the digit
You better go buy that widget
Sex sells everything, run and get it
Chorus
Brainwash for profit
Chemicals and rockets
Money in their pockets
You can try but you can’t stop it
Verse II
Gotta get outta this corporate trap
Addicted to Pepsi, Coke and Crack
They want you to sit at home
Medicate, sedate your dome
Watch commercials all alone
Distracted, short attention, stoned
Look at models, you would bone
Look at cars with shiny chrome
Look at all the cash you’ve blown
So you could be a corporate clone
Drive nice cars, dress well too
Excuse us while we dictate you,
Ignore us while we kill the earth
Environment? How much is it worth?
Everything is just pros and cons
Pro-destruction, nature’s gone
Fuck the schools, we need more bombs
Vote your party, just stay calm
Prozack, Klonopin, whatcha on?
Your whole life stored on CD-ROM
Commercials are just one big con
That’s why this is Babylon
Verse III
Brainwash for profit, Money in their pocket
You think you can stop it?
You gotta gun? You better cock it
Corporations are just like weapons
Kill anything they think threatens
Things like free speech and hippie functions
Laugh about it at corporate luncheons
Board room talk about destruction
Buy the products, now you’re sucked in
This machine is just too massive
Americans, you’re just too passive