Consumerism - Ms. Lauryn Hill

Consumerism running through them like a tumor in 'em

Ageism, sexism, racism, chauvinism

Capitalism running through them like the rumour business

Separatism, skepticism, 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, need an exorcism

Situation, heathenism, adversary demonism

To fix forms of religious spontaneity’s a bad decision

Catholicism, Darwinism, barbarism, formalism

European fetishisms, terrorism running through them on their television

Introversion, extra prison tolerance for bad decisions

Exploitative be the saviour to correct the system/paranoia

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 mess they is in

Hoodooism, hypnotism, egoism, realism, humanism, legalism

Mysticism makes decisions from a purer prism

Magnetism, pragmatism, altruism, pacifism/idealism

Actualism, rehabilitation-ism, ostracism, skepticism

Small fish ball for recognition oppressor and oppres condition

Sex, addiction, next suspicion, vexed, conflict and secularism

See, people need to villainize to offset disdain for their lives

Ugly human, ugly shame, corporate greed in Jesus' name

Anarchism, self-delusions

Victims leave with no solutions

Impositions, superstitions, violence and contradictions

False pretense and no convictions

Compromised commercialism

I said compromised commercialism

Worth and vision, work for wisdom

Full electromagnetism

Who comes first is first position

Rap’s been missing you’ve been listening

Watch the empress bless the system

Paganism, false religion, plagiarism, broken system

Euphemism unforgiven

Inhibition, prohibition, disconnection

Broken wisdom, broken cistern can’t hold wisdom

This town needs an exorcism

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

Alcoholism, fascism, rationalism, national tension

Journalism gone gestapoism poporazzo-ism

As the world turns in isms

Trust eroticism, social drugs, narcotics in them

Cult existence, superstition

Ritual materialisms, serial isms

Habitual inferior vision

Consumerism

He is, he is

Set to, set to

Self-destruct, self-destruct

He is, he is

Too cool, too cool

To be true

Listen

Consumerism running through them like a tumor in 'em

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

Selfish business decision, greedy reductionism

Obstruction of the justice, occupation victimizationism

Brainwashing, mind control, synthetic stimulation in them

Time control mutilating the soul for a business decision

Help the people cope sell 'em 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

Lock the means production down, price reduction down

Inflation and corruption need the medication now!

They need the medication now!

Corporate 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

Distaster faster and faster and faster

Terrorism running through them on their television

Introversion, indecision, reactionism, hypocrism

Phony nationalism, dishpan Africanism

Material hypnotisms, monopoly, militarist devi-isms, sadomasochisms

Intellectual fetishisms sold on computers and televisions

Exploitative need a saviour to correct the system

Paranoia 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, realism, humanism, legalism

Small fish ball for recognition oppressor and oppressed condition

Sex, addiction, vexed conflict and anarchism

Self-delusions, victims leave with no solutions

Impositions, superstitions, brutism, contradictions

False pretense and no convictions

Compromised commercialism, recognition

Any decisions from a pure prism

Magnetism, pragmatism, altruism, actionism

Activism, pacifism, rehabilitation-ism

No false sensationalism, aped assimilation in 'em

Corporate cannibalism, psychological limitations in 'em

No imitations, competition, gross assumption

Parasitism, negative stimulation in 'em

Consumerism