Consumerism - Lauryn Hill
[Verse 1] Consumerism's running through'em like a tumor in'em Ageism, sexism, racism, chauvinism Capitalism running through them like the rumour business Separatism, scepticism, 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 needing exorcism Situation hedonism, adversary demonism To fix forms of religious spontaneity is a bad decision Catholicism, Darwinism, barbarism, formalism European fetishisms, terrorism Running through them on the Television Introversion, extra prisons Tolerance for bad decisions Exploitative be the saviour of corrective systems Paranoid 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 makes decisions, hoodooism, hypnotism Egoism, reagalism, humanism, legalism Mysticism makes decisions from a purer prism Magnetism, pragmatism, altruism, pacifism Idealism, actualism, rehabilitation-ism Skepticism, small fish (?) recognition (?) press conditions Sex addiction, ex suspicion Vexed conflict is secularism See, people need to villainize To alter this thing for their lives Ugly human, ugly shame Corporate greed in Jesus' name Anarchism subdelusions (?) with no solutions Impositions, superstitions, violence and contradictions Forged court conditions, no convictions Compromised commercialism I said compromised commercialism War condition, vaults of wisdom For electromagnetism Hubris first (?) behaviourism, false religion, plagiarism Vocals-ism, music-ism (?) Innovation prohibition Disconnection, broken wisdom Broken system can't hold wisdom Detainees in exorcism Egotism, egotism, egotism, egotism, egotism, egotism, egotism, egotism Alcoholism, fascism, rationalism National tension, journalism (?) paparazzoism Mental alternative to plush touched eroticism Social drug narcotics in a cult of inner superstition Ritual materialisms, serialisms Habitual inferior vision Consumerism [Hook] He is, he is Set to, set to Self-destruct, self-destruct He is, he is Too cool, too cool To be true [Verse 2] Listen Consumerism's running through them like a tumor in them 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 Selfishness is decision, greedy reductionism Obstruction of the justice, occupation victimizationism This is brainwashing, mind control, static stimulation in them Time control mutilating soulful business decision Helping people cope, selling 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 Lots of means of production down, production down, corruption They need the medication now They need the medication now Forced 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 Faster and faster and faster Terrorism running through them on their television Introversion, indecision, reactionism, hypocrism Phony nationalism, dishpan Africanism Material hypnotims, monopoly militarist devi-isms Sadomasochisms Intellectual fetishisms, sold on computers and televisions Exploitative need a savior, correct the system Paranoid 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, regalism, humanism, legalism (?) small fish (?) recognition (?) recognition press conditions Sex addiction Vexed out rhythm, anarchism Self-delusions, (?) with no solutions Impositions, superstitions, brutalism, contradictions False belief with no convictions Compromised commercialism Commercialism, recognition Any decisions from a pure prism Magnetism, pragmatism, altruism, actionism Activism, pacifism, rehabilitation-ism No false sensationalism, ape assimilation Corporate cannibalism, psychological limitations Allow no imitations, competition, closed assumption Parasitism, negative simulation Consumerism [Hook]
Artist: Lauryn Hill
Title: Consumerism