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