Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron - Madison Avenue lyrics

Pretty pictures in your favorite magazines
Span the distance between you and Mr clean
You can take part in the all-American dream
Just fill your house up with a
Million products you don’t need
And you don’t ever have to use them
Buying is all that’s asked of you
And if it’s so goddamn incredible that
You can’t believe it’s true
It’s Madison Avenue

Make it all commercial
There ain’t nothing folks won’t buy
New fuel to fire up the
Monsters of free enterprise
Gizmos and gadgets and batteries
To make them run and give your check up at
The first of every month
And, and don’t wake up to the uselessness
‘Til your whole life is overdue
If it’s so goddamn incredible that
You can’t believe it’s true
It’s Madison Avenue

They can sell sand to a
Man living on a desert
They sell tuna to the Chicken of the Sea
You are surrounded and confounded and
Dumbfounded by the happenings yes, it’s true
It’s Madison Avenue gotcha

And don’t wake up to the uselessness
‘Til your whole life is overdue
‘Cause if it’s so goddamn incredible that
You can’t believe it’s true
It’s Madison Avenue
It’s Madison Avenue (yeah, y yeah, y yeah)
It’s Madison Avenue
(yeah, y yeah, yeah, yeah)
It’s Madison Avenue
(yeah, y yeah, yeah, yeah)
It’s Madison Avenue
(yeah, y yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
It’s Madison Avenue
(Madison Avenue, yeah i really wanna say)
(It’s Madison Avenue, uh huh, uh
Huh, uh, uh huh, uh)
(It’s Madison Avenue, uh huh, uh, uh huh, uh
Woah)
(Madison Avenue, oh yeah say what, what?)
(It’s Madison Avenue, uh huh
Huh, uh huh, uh, uh huh)
(Ha ha ha ha ha)