Citizen Fish - Supermarket Song lyrics

In the shops and supermarket chains The checkouts play that song again The notes ring in, ring out the change Laughing all the way to the stock exchange The music keeps us happy as we choose The products that we can't afford to use The tokens on the packets, the percentages that drop The ringing and the singing from the ceiling never stops Buy the product and be free! Live a life of luxury! And it says so on T.V. Every quarter of an hour Consuming all the facts Makes you feel you can relax Comes neatly wrapped in packs With ingredients on the back So when you're sick from plastic snacks You'll know precisely why While you uphold the megastores By paying what you can't afford The man who runs the shop next door Remembers how it was before When personality meant something And costumers would laugh with him They'd smile or nod as they came in And adverts didn't mean a thing But now the supermarket chains Are around your neck and purse They sell the products to the strain Of some long-forgotten dirge Just loud enough to wash away The headaches of outside Another shopping paradise Where god is on your side They channel mediocrity As life's essential quality You're buying two to get one free It's some thing that you'll never need But greed and curiosity Make you consume and let them feed