Supermarket Song

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