If Hope Dies - Shop Till You Drop lyrics

rate me

feed the machine

that eats up

our lives

churning out product,

end result of time processed

then sold back to us,

and renamed convenience

left with the notion

of life as commodity

hours converted to dollars

for the benefit of

private interest

coerced, to reduce our options

there is no freedom

within this economy

working to buy

our time saving devices

have we sacrificed

more in the name of convenience

than we stand to gain?

eaten alive

our blood greases the axles

of an engine that's out of control

this defies our nature

we will take back

what our masters stole

they want you to live to work,

work until you die

marry and reproduce,

more resource for them to exploit

forget what they'd have you believe

our lives are not their playthings

we won't be bought and sold