Suckers lined up on a Babylon chain gang...

O high society

Founded on the self

Where selfishness was the highest value that anyone ever felt

We reassured each other

"You got to look out for Number One..."

"Follow all your dreams man, before they're all gone..."

So here in the land of the free

It's weird that we do what we're told like we're slaves on a chain gang

We only want what they tell us to be wanting

And we always chase whatever they tell us to be chasing

Suckers lined up on a Babylon chain gang...

s__ is the opium of the people

And this is the most religious people of them all

We set up idols everywhere we go

Every page

Every channel

Every street

Every shop and every home

Television

Pay - rise

Alcohol

New car

Friday night

Younger flesh

Weed

p___

Bigger b______

Clearer skin

Property ladder

50% extra free

Or whatever is your weakness

And so on, endlessly

Here in the middle of a million idols and anaesthetics

We've become completely pacified

Completely apathetic

You could take every bit of dignity from us and we wouldn't even notice

Because we're too busy chasing the desires hung in front of our noses

Suckers lined up on a Babylon chain gang...

Where self centeredness is the ultimate principle

Those who can gain from others' losses will do so

It's simple

It's a game

It's Monopoly

It's a race

It's the economy

It's illegitimate gods competing for significance

So drink more and think less - it's good for the economy

O.C.D. stress is good for the economy

Spend yourselves into the red and pay it back with interest

And do whatever the heck else is good for the economy

We're dogs fetching sticks for thieves

We're suckers chasing fallacies

In the name of somebody else's money

We do whatever we're told

And we somehow still believe that we're masters of our own lives

gods - with a lower case "g"

Suckers lined up on a Babylon chain gang...

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