Television syphilis grips the nation

From St John's Wood to Manchester

To New York to Los Angeles

Feeding a sea of masses useless information

Fluorescent tubes radiating

Canonizing, idolizing

The latest throwaway celebrity infatuation

Pulsating airwaves of pollution

Ebb and flow, ebb and flow

Rocking its audience to and fro

Singing soothing malevolent lullabies

Of the latest products the corporations

Pay to advertise

You can't run, you can't hide

Media and bureaucracy

Turns the lazy into zombies of mediocrity

Confederates and Yankees

Sweatshop labour in factories

The slave trade was never really abolished

It's the collective unconscious

They now hold hostage

We'll never ever really be free

As long as money-making corporations

Gorge themselves with greed

It is them who dictate the rules for our society

Of what we should look like

And how white our teeth should be

From magazine covers telling you how to

Lose weight and bag your man effortlessly

Forget about gonorrhea, AIDS and HIV

Cly-media is fastest and most easily spread dangerous disease

Brothers, sisters don't let them sell you fantasies

Brothers, sisters don't pay attention to their ploy

To create and exploit none-existent insecurities