Lauryn Hill - Consumerism Lyrics
[Verse 1]Consumerism’s running through’em like a tumor in’emAgeism, sexism, racism, chauvinismCapitalism running through them like the rumour businessSeparatism, scepticism, modernism, atheismTelevision running through them like an organismMechanism, despotism, poisoning the ecosystemSatanism running through them like a politicianHedonism, hypocrism, nihilism, narcissismEgotism running through them needing exorcismSituation hedonism, adversary demonismTo fix forms of religious spontaneity is a bad decisionCatholicism, Darwinism, barbarism, formalismEuropean *****isms, terrorismRunning through them on the TelevisionIntroversion, extra prisonsTolerance for bad decisionsExploitative be the saviour of corrective systemsParanoid skepticism, schizophrenic masochismEscapism running through them need a sedativeMedication, complication, devastation negativeI say devastation negativeModernism has created modern prisonsNeo-McCarthyisms, new colonialismsPessimism makes decisions, hoodooism, hypnotismEgoism, reagalism, humanism, legalismMysticism makes decisions from a purer prismMagnetism, pragmatism, altruism, pacifismIdealism, actualism, rehabilitation-ismSkepticism, small fish… recognition… press conditionsSex addiction, ex suspicionVexed conflict is secularismSee, people need to villainizeTo alter this thing for their livesUgly human, ugly shameCorporate greed in Jesus’ nameAnarchism subdelusions…with no solutionsImpositions, superstitions, violence and contradictionsForged court conditions, no convictionsCompromised commercialismI said compromised commercialismWar condition, vaults of wisdomFor electromagnetismHubris first… behaviourism, false religion, plagiarismVocals-ism, music-ism…Innovation prohibitionDisconnection, broken wisdomBroken system can’t hold wisdomDetainees in exorcismEgotism, egotism, egotism, egotismEgotism, egotism, egotism, egotismAlcoholism, fascism, rationalismNational tension, journalism…paparazzoismMental alternative to plush touched eroticismSocial drug narcotics in a cult of inner superstitionRitual materialisms, serialismsHabitual inferior visionConsumerism[Hook]He is, he isSet to, set toSelf-destruct, self-destructHe is, he isToo cool, too coolTo be true[Verse 2]ListenConsumerism’s running through them like a tumor in themSeparatism, skepticism, desperation, nepotismCapitalism running through the Montezuma in emAgeism, sexism, racism, fascismTelevision running through em like an organismHedonism, egoism, systematic narcissismTo empty religious spontaneity is anarchismSocial Darwinism, barbarism, modern paganismMajor schizism, divisionEthnoplagiarismSelfishness is decision, greedy reductionismObstruction of the justice, occupation victimizationismThis is brainwashing, mind control, static stimulation in themTime control mutilating soulful business decisionHelping people cope, selling dope from a new tropeSynthetic hope, life spent walking on a tightropeInfantile masturbation, juvenile, no educationMental castration, a generation forced to labor for a nationLots of means of production down, production down, corruptionThey need the medication nowThey need the medication nowForced production in a state of mass combustionGreed and lust and dangerous repercussionsTo escape the rupture they speak of raptureWhile still going after the things they spiritually captureFaster and faster and fasterTerrorism running through them on their televisionIntroversion, indecision, reactionism, hypocrismPhony nationalism, dishpan AfricanismMaterial hypnotims, monopoly militarist devi-ismsSadomasochismsIntellectual *****isms, sold on computers and televisionsExploitative need a savior, correct the systemParanoid skepticism, schizophrenic mechanismsEscapism running through them need a sedativeMedication, complication, situation negativeModernism has created modern prisonsNeo-McCarthyisms, new colonialismsPessimism makes decisions, hoodooism, hypnotismEgoism, regalism, humanism, legalism…small fish… recognitioN… recognition press conditionsSex addictionVexed out rhythm, anarchismSelf-delusions… with no solutionsImpositions, superstitions, brutalism, contradictionsFalse belief with no convictionsCompromised commercialismCommercialism, recognitionAny decisions from a pure prismMagnetism, pragmatism, altruism, actionismActivism, pacifism, rehabilitation-ismNo false sensationalism, ape assimilationCorporate cannibalism, psychological limitationsAllow no imitations, competition, closed assumptionParasitism, negative simulationConsumerism[Hook]
