Neil Young - The Restless Consumer lyrics

The people have heard the news
The people have spoken
You may not like what they said
But they weren't joking
Way out on the desert sands
Lies a desperate lover
They call her the "Queen of Oil"
So much to discover
Don't need no ad machine
Telling me what I need
Don't need no Madison Avenue war
Don't need no more boxes I can see
Covered in flags but I can't see them on TV

Don't need no more lies

The restless consumer flies
Around the world each day
With such an appetite for taste and grace
People from around the world
Need someone to listen
We're starving and dying from our disease
We need your medicine how do you pay for war
And leave us dying?
When you could do so much more
You're not even trying don't need no TV ad
Telling me how sick I am
Don't want to know how many
People are like me don't need no dizziness
Don't need no nausea
Don't need no side effects like
Diarrhea or sexual death

Don't need no more lies

The restless consumer lies
Asleep in her hotel with such an appetite
For anything that sells
A hundred voices from a hundred lands
Need someone to listen
People are dying here and there
They don't see the world the way you do
There's no mission accomplished here
Just death to thousands
A hundred voices from a hundred lands
Cry out in unison
Don't need no terror squad
Don't want no damned Jihad
Blowing themselves away in my hood
But we don't talk to them
So we don't learn from them
Hate don't negotiate with good

The restless consumer flies
Around the world each day
With such an appetite for efficiency
And pace