Neil Young – The Restless Consumer (2006) | Track profile | Dork

Neil Young – The Restless Consumer (2006) | Track profile | Dork

Lyrics

The Restless Consumer

[Verse 1]

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) Don't need no ad machine telling me what I need

(Don't need) Don't need no Madison Avenue war

(Don't need) Don't need no more boxes I can see

(Don't need) Covered in flags but I can't see them on TV

[Refrain]

(Don't need) Don't need no more lies

(Don't need) Don't need no more lies

(Don't need) Don't need no more lies

(Don't need) Don't need no more lies

[Bridge]

The restless consumer flies

Around the world each day

With such an appetite

For taste and grace

[Verse 2]

People from around the world

Need someone to listen

We're starving and dyin' from our disease

We need your medicine

How do you pay for war

And leave us dyin'?

When you could do so much more

You're not even tryin'

(Don't need) Don't need no TV ad telling me how sick I am

(Don't need) Don't want to leave

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

(Don't need) Don't need no dizziness, don't need no nausea

(Don't need) Don't need no side effects like diarrhea or sexual death

[Refrain]

(Don't need) Don't need no more lies

(Don't need) Don't need no more lies

(Don't need) Don't need no more lies

(Don't need) Don't need no more lies

[Bridge]

The restless consumer flies

Asleep in her hotel

With such an appetite

For anything that sells

[Verse 3]

A hundred voices from a hundred lands

Need someone to listen

People are starvin' here and there

(Need someone to listen)

They don't see the world the way you do

There's no mission accomplished here (Need someone to listen)

Just death to thousands

A hundred voices from a hundred lands

Cry out in unison (Need someone to listen)

(Don't need) Don't need no terror squad, don't want no damned jihad

(Don't need) Blowing themselves away in my hood

(Don't need) But we don't talk to them and we don't learn from them

(Don't need) Hate don't negotiate with good, don't need it

[Refrain]

(Don't need) Don't need no more lies

(Don't need) Don't need no more lies

(Don't need) Don't need no more lies

(Don't need) Don't need no more lies

[Bridge]

The restless consumer flies

Around the world each day

With such an appetite

For efficiency and pace

[Refrain]

Don't need no more lies

Don't need no more lies

Don't need no more lies

Don't need no more lies

Don't need no more lies

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