Lauryn Hill - Consumerism lyrics

[Verse 1] Consumerism running through them like a tumor in 'em Ageism, s**ism, racism, chauvinism Capitalism running through them like the rumour business Separatism, skepticism, 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, need an exorcism Situation, heathenism, adversary demonism To fix forms of religious spontaneity's a bad decision Catholicism, Darwinism, barbarism, formalism European fetishisms, terrorism running through them on their television Introversion, extra prison tolerance for bad decisions Exploitative be the saviour to correct the system/paranoia 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 mess they is in Hoodooism, hypnotism, egoism, realism, humanism, legalism Mysticism makes decisions from a purer prism Magnetism, pragmatism, altruism, pacifism/idealism Actualism, rehabilitation-ism, ostracism, skepticism Small fish ball for recognition oppressor and oppres condition Sex, addiction, next suspicion, vexed, conflict and secularism See, people need to villainize to offset disdain for their lives Ugly human, ugly shame, corporate greed in Jesus' name Anarchism, self-delusions Victims leave with no solutions Impositions, superstitions, violence and contradictions False pretense and no convictions Compromised commercialism I said compromised commercialism Worth and vision, work for wisdom Full electromagnetism Who comes first is first position Rap's been missing you've been listening Watch the empress bless the system Paganism, false religion, plagiarism, broken system Euphemism unforgiven Inhibition, prohibition, disconnection Broken wisdom, broken cistern can't hold wisdom This town needs an exorcism Egotism, egotism, egotism, egotism, egotism, egotism, egotism, egotism Alcoholism, fascism, rationalism, national tension Journalism gone gestapoism poporazzo-ism As the world turns in isms Trust eroticism, social d**, narcotics in them Cult existence, superstition Ritual materialisms, serial isms 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 running through them like a tumor in 'em Separatism, skepticism, desperation, nepotism Capitalism running through the Montezuma in em Ageism, s**ism, 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 Selfish business decision, greedy reductionism Obstruction of the justice, occupation victimizationism Brainwashing, mind control, synthetic stimulation in them Time control mutilating the soul for a business decision Help the people cope sell 'em 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 Lock the means production down, price reduction down Inflation and corruption need the medication now! They need the medication now! Corporate production in a state of ma** combustion Greed and lust and dangerous repercussions To escape the rupture they speak of rapture While still going after the things they spiritually capture Distaster faster and faster and faster Terrorism running through them on their television Introversion, indecision, reactionism, hypocrism Phony nationalism, dishpan Africanism Material hypnotisms, monopoly, militarist devi-isms, sadomasochisms Intellectual fetishisms sold on computers and televisions Exploitative need a saviour to correct the system Paranoia 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, realism, humanism, legalism Small fish ball for recognition oppressor and oppressed condition Sex, addiction, vexed conflict and anarchism Self-delusions, victims leave with no solutions Impositions, superstitions, brutism, contradictions False pretense and no convictions Compromised commercialism, recognition Any decisions from a pure prism Magnetism, pragmatism, altruism, actionism Activism, pacifism, rehabilitation-ism No false sensationalism, aped a**imilation in 'em Corporate cannibalism, psychological limitations in 'em No imitations, competition, gross a**umption Parasitism, negative stimulation in 'em Consumerism [Hook]