Consumerism Lyrics - Lauryn Hill

[Verse 1] 

Consumerism's running through'em like a tumor in'em 

Ageism, sexism, racism, chauvinism 

Capitalism running through them like the rumour business 

Separatism, scepticism, modernism, atheism 

Television running through them like an organism 

Mechanism, despotism, poisoning the ecosystem 

Satanism running through them like a politician 

Hedonism, hypocrism, nihilism, narcissism 

Egotism running through them needing exorcism 

Situation hedonism, adversary demonism 

To fix forms of religious spontaneity is a bad decision 

Catholicism, Darwinism, barbarism, formalism 

European fetishisms, terrorism 

Running through them on the Television 

Introversion, extra prisons 

Tolerance for bad decisions 

Exploitative be the saviour of corrective systems 

Paranoid skepticism, schizophrenic masochism 

Escapism running through them need a sedative 

Medication, complication, devastation negative 

I say devastation negative 

Modernism has created modern prisons 

Neo-McCarthyisms, new colonialisms 

Pessimism makes decisions, hoodooism, hypnotism 

Egoism, reagalism, humanism, legalism 

Mysticism makes decisions from a purer prism 

Magnetism, pragmatism, altruism, pacifism 

Idealism, actualism, rehabilitation-ism 

Skepticism, small fish (?) recognition (?) press conditions 

Sex addiction, ex suspicion 

Vexed conflict is secularism 

See, people need to villainize 

To alter this thing for their lives 

Ugly human, ugly shame 

Corporate greed in Jesus' name 

Anarchism subdelusions 

(?) with no solutions 

Impositions, superstitions, violence and contradictions 

Forged court conditions, no convictions 

Compromised commercialism 

I said compromised commercialism 

War condition, vaults of wisdom 

For electromagnetism 

Hubris first (?) behaviourism, false religion, plagiarism 

Vocals-ism, music-ism (?) 

Innovation prohibition 

Disconnection, broken wisdom 

Broken system can't hold wisdom 

Detainees in exorcism 

Egotism, egotism, egotism, egotism, egotism, egotism, egotism, egotism 

Alcoholism, fascism, rationalism 

National tension, journalism 

(?) paparazzoism 

Mental alternative to plush touched eroticism 

Social drug narcotics in a cult of inner superstition 

Ritual materialisms, serialisms 

Habitual inferior vision 

Consumerism 

[Hook] 

He is, he is 

Set to, set to 

Self-destruct, self-destruct 

He is, he is 

Too cool, too cool 

To be true 

[Verse 2] 

Listen 

Consumerism's running through them like a tumor in them 

Separatism, skepticism, desperation, nepotism 

Capitalism running through the Montezuma in em 

Ageism, sexism, racism, fascism 

Television running through em like an organism 

Hedonism, egoism, systematic narcissism 

To empty religious spontaneity is anarchism 

Social Darwinism, barbarism, modern paganism 

Major schizism, division 

Ethnoplagiarism 

Selfishness is decision, greedy reductionism 

Obstruction of the justice, occupation victimizationism 

This is brainwashing, mind control, static stimulation in them 

Time control mutilating soulful business decision 

Helping people cope, selling dope from a new trope 

Synthetic hope, life spent walking on a tightrope 

Infantile masturbation, juvenile, no education 

Mental castration, a generation forced to labor for a nation 

Lots of means of production down, production down, corruption 

They need the medication now 

They need the medication now 

Forced production in a state of mass combustion 

Greed and lust and dangerous repercussions 

To escape the rupture they speak of rapture 

While still going after the things they spiritually capture 

Faster and faster and faster 

Terrorism running through them on their television 

Introversion, indecision, reactionism, hypocrism 

Phony nationalism, dishpan Africanism 

Material hypnotims, monopoly militarist devi-isms 

Sadomasochisms 

Intellectual fetishisms, sold on computers and televisions 

Exploitative need a savior, correct the system 

Paranoid skepticism, schizophrenic mechanisms 

Escapism running through them need a sedative 

Medication, complication, situation negative 

Modernism has created modern prisons 

Neo-McCarthyisms, new colonialisms 

Pessimism makes decisions, hoodooism, hypnotism 

Egoism, regalism, humanism, legalism 

(?) small fish (?) recognition (?) recognition press conditions 

Sex addiction 

Vexed out rhythm, anarchism 

Self-delusions, (?) with no solutions 

Impositions, superstitions, brutalism, contradictions 

False belief with no convictions 

Compromised commercialism 

Commercialism, recognition 

Any decisions from a pure prism 

Magnetism, pragmatism, altruism, actionism 

Activism, pacifism, rehabilitation-ism 

No false sensationalism, ape assimilation 

Corporate cannibalism, psychological limitations 

Allow no imitations, competition, closed assumption 

Parasitism, negative simulation 

Consumerism 

[Hook]