David Rovics - Everything Looks The Same lyrics

I'm just driving down this highway Past a shopping mall I see billboard after billboard Hear the advertiser's call I see cars and I hear cars and I smell cars All just like mine I see a world covered with asphalt You're in parking lot G9 It's just sprawling on forever It doesn't even have a name It's the land where everything looks the same See the signs rise high above us Flashing day and night Verizon Wireless, Holiday Inn Coca-Cola Lite There once was gra** here, maybe forest But none of that's here now It's just product after product As much as time and space allows Am I in Tennessee or Texas Baltimore or Burlingame I'm where everything looks the same Ancient forests, family farmers Or the commons, heart of town Does it make money, that's the question If it don't we'll knock it down There's not a bicycle for miles Not a soul in sight That can't be seen behind a wheel A few feet from the headlights I don't know my neighbors And I feel ashamed Here where everything looks the same If you don't like the Wal-Mart Take these d** and you'll feel OK Now go sit behind the register And pa** your life away Eat these burgers from the factory And if you should get fat Just give us some more money And we've got some d** for that In this nation of individuals Is there one that we can blame Why everything looks the same As I'm driving past the clearcut With the brand new multi-cinema And the ma**ive mural praising The latest enema I think of moving eastward Maybe Gant or Amsterdam Far from Ronald McDonald And his greedy Uncle Sam Where life looks more like life And not some cardboard money game