Oh. Who needs rock and roll? Who needs songs about saving your soul? Plastic music, plastic food, Cellophane tunes for that synthetic mood You got your inspiration from a vending machine, It's an audio starvation diet, Mannequins on a shopping spree, Who cares if you like it? - Buy it. It's everywhere I go, (go, go, go, go) It programs my soul, It tells me what I need, Oh, it takes a mean lead, lead. Elevator music, (a capital idea) Elevator music, (programmed just for you) Elevating sales at the speed of sound, Soon you'll be shopping in Sen-Surround. Controlling your wallet, coaxing your soul,
The corporate big brother - it's an overload, Get off that conveyor, that treadmill of persuasion, Jesus brings the light into every situation. It's everywhere I go, (go, go, go, go) It programs my soul, It tells me what I need, Oh, it takes a mean lead, lead. Elevator music, (it's a capital idea) Elevator music, (programmed just for you) Buy, buy, sell, sell, ee-ee-ow. Elevator music - it's a failure in heaven, Elevator music - it's a subtle kind of leaven, What this world needs is music that feeds, Not elevator music, Not elevator music, Dump all that elevator music, Get rid of elevator music.