Goldrush - Sweatshop Union

Mothers and sons, fathers and daughters you’re

Praisin' the dollar just like it’s a goddess

Now, process the thought you could say yo' it’s not us;

We’re cautious so as not to get caught up on products

Bull shit so full of McDonalds you need calonics

No honest, they’ve got us just how they’ve got us so that we want it

And will it stop?

No!

Not since your self-strength went through the window

It’s all money in the world on the ride

With the, you and I gettin robbed by the?

And everything you know and love is getting sold up (sold up)

Sold out in the frenzy for the goldrush

Look at the pop kings and queens

Stop think and see that the tug of marketing beneath those hot pink caprees

Got you talkin' and bein' like all the Hollywood phony shit

Better watch what you’re preachin' now days not even only just that

I need a pony it’s that

I need a Nokia-teen-barbie phone with a monthly credit loan

Because it’s family stuff

And we love to be nice parents

But you ought to know your daughter’s growin' up to be like Paris

And they don’t care it’s in your homes or your own minds

They got you when your born so it’s in your bones

Like a kiddie-farm goldmine

Generation so blind

We don’t need to think, that’s the whole nine

And you can hide, but they got million-dollar spin-doctors

Workin' through the night to get a million out your thin pockets

Got a bottom line, big profits, big willy wanna brainwash the world

Gonna make a killing off it

I remember being thirteen, diggin' in my moms purse

Fiendin' to get the name brand shirts

Jeans, and anything else I thought was cool

Wanted to show off my shoes once I got to school

To make the other kids jealous

Tryin’a front like I bought 'em at Footlocker when I got 'em at Zeller’s

But what the hell was I supposed to say man

These girls’ll ignore you unless your clothes are name brand, shit

But by the time I turned seventeen

Realized that almost everything I thought was important had never been

And a lot of what I taught was true just wasn’t

So by then I rarely got to school

Started seeing it’s a consumers world

Perpetuating greed that consumers the world

And everybody’s over obsessed with their possessions

Getting loaded with debt

Got us climbing out a hole till we’re old and decrepit