Body of War Songs That Inspired an Iraq War Veteran movie - The Restless Consumer lyrics

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Song by Neil Young<br /><br>

The people have heard the news <br>

The people have spoken <br>

You may not like what they said <br>

But they weren't jokin' <br>

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Way out on the desert sands <br>

Lies a desperate lover <br>

They call her the "Queen of Oil" <br>

So much to discover <br>

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Don't need no ad machine <br>

Telling me what I need <br>

Don't need no Madison Avenue War <br>

Don't need no more boxes I can see <br>

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Covered in flags but I can't see them on TV <br>

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Don't need no more lies <br>

Don't need no more lies <br>

Don't need no more lies <br>

Don't need no more lies <br>

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The restless consumer flies <br>

Around the world each day <br>

With such an appetite for taste and grace <br>

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People from around the world <br>

Need someone to listen <br>

We're starving and dying from our disease <br>

We need your medicine <br>

How do you pay for war <br>

And leave us dyin' ? <br>

When you could do so much more <br>

You're not even tryin' <br>

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Don't need no TV ad <br>

Tellin' me how sick I am <br>

Don't want to know how many people are like me <br>

Don't need no dizziness <br>

Don't need no nausea <br>

Don't need no side effects like diarrhea or sexual death <br>

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Don't need no more lies <br>

Don't need no more lies <br>

Don't need no more lies <br>

Don't need no more lies <br>

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The restless consumer lies <br>

Asleep in her hotel <br>

With such an appetite <br>

For anything that sells <br>

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A hundred voices from a hundred lands <br>

Need someone to listen <br>

People are dying here and there <br>

They don't see the world the way you do <br>

There's no mission accomplished here <br>

Just death to thousands <br>

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A hundred voices from a hundred lands <br>

Cry out in unison <br>

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Don't need no terror squad <br>

Don't want no damned Jihad <br>

Blowin' themselves away in my hood <br>

But we don't talk to them <br>

So we don't learn from them <br>

Hate don't negotiate with Good <br>

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Don't need no more lies <br>

Don't need no more lies <br>

Don't need no more lies <br>

Don't need no more lies <br>

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The restless comsumer flies <br>

Around the world each day <br>

With such an appetite for efficiency <br>

And pace... <br>

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Don't need no more lies.<br>

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