So here's a sale to sooth recession And an ad campaign to calm the credit crisis At five A.M. the doors broke open And then a man lay dying on the sales floor The store was back open by mid-afternoon We're eating the sh** we've been talking As we search for absolution in these diatribes We'll find, that there's no absolution for the feet or the tile floor It seems we'll trade d**h for discount As we watch ourselves turn to sh**, on an L.C.D. screen We've become the f*cking herd and we've become the stampede
I can't seem to plot this point on the map of where we were born and raised Somewhere in the newspapers my parents read, there is a help wanted ad To replace the frontlines of the free market I can't seem to plot this point on the charts and graphs That describe how we languish in our economic decline It seems we'll trade d**h for discount We're capable of every f*cked up thing that they invite us to be As we're penned in the gates of the profit margin