Sell the Second Coming: 0010110

from July 2009

Skyscrapers shade sun streaked streets;
morning beats and breaks -The golden wreath
hangs over head while pedestrians eat up
over-sized billboard ads: SPEND!
It's corporate brainwashing;
the media's talking: Do you have this?
You need this!
It makes me sick, makes me pissed;
flick the switch and ride the rip curl
of the channel surf.
Shopping channels
and infomercials,
more commercials,
more commercials,
more commercials.
They use repetition to sell shit
listen to it, hear them spit and slobber
stutter, speak of bread and butter
speak of nothin' better,
so scrounge it together
$9.99
Dollars and cents,
pay up to make sense of it.
What are we buying but lies
from capitalist monsters
with too much to gain.
We speak in unision,
to everyone
zero zero one zero one one zero.
Bar-code nightmares,
sign of a sighing nation,
waitin',
whistle & humming.
Gonna buy the t-shirt,
postcard and collectors cup
to remember the second coming.