Alix Olson America's On Sale Lyrics

ATTENTION SHOPPERS!!!
Attention 9 to 5 folk, cell-phone masses
The up and coming classes
Attention sports-utility
Plastic-surgery suburbanites
Viagra-popping, gucci-shopping urbanites
Attention george-clooney loonies
Promise-keeper sheep
Stockbroker sleep-walkers
Big investment talkers
Ricki lake-watchers
Attention walmart congregation
Shop til you drop generation
ATTENTION NATION!
AMERICA’S ON SALE!
We’ve unstocked the welfare pantry
To restock the wall street gentry
It’s economically elementary
Because values don’t pay
Yes, american dreams are on permanent layaway!
(there was limited availability anyway)
The statue of liberty is being dismantled
Ten dollars a piece to sit on your mantle
Or hang on your wall
By the small somalian child
You bought from sally struthers
Sisters and brothers, it’s now or never
These deals won’t last forever-
AMERICA’S ON SALE!
(restrictions may apply if you’re black, gay or female)
And shoppers!
Global perspective is ninety-ninety percent off
Cause most of the world don’t count to us
Our ethic inventory is low
Because moral business has been slow
The values-company is moving to mexico--
And ALL ETHICS MUST GO!
It’s a remote control America that’s on sale
Because standing up for justice can’t compare
To clicking through it from a lazy chair--
Answer: jerry, montel, oprah
Question: folks who really care!
For a million dollars!
In this new mcveggie burger world order
Where the mainstream scene has an alternative theme
Where national health care is one hundred percent off!
And medicare is in the fifty percent bin
So you can buy--half an operation
When AMERICA’S ON SALE! There’s a close-out bid to determine
Which religion will win
All the neon flashing signs of sin
The Christian Coalition is bidding high
Shoppers, you ask WHY?!
Who needs a higher power when you’ve got
The purchasing power
To corner and market
One human mold
That’s right - Real family values
Are being UNDERSOLD!!
And it’s open hunting season for the NRA!
There’s a special oozie discount-- only today!
Gun control?! We say--
F*ck it! Blow it all away!
Because inflation is up on the CEO ego
And power is deflated as far as we go:
Nike bought the revolution
And law schools bought the constitution!
Tommy Hilfiger bought the red, white, and blue
(a flag shirt for fifty dollars
The one being burned is you!)
Marlboro bought what it means to be a man
Lexus equals power- so get it while you can
Maybelline bought beauty
New York bought Rudy Guiliani
Mastercard Gold bought the national soul
Broadway bought talent and called it CATS!
The Republicans bought out the Democrats-
They liquidated all asses in a fat white donkey sale-
Now it’s buy one shmuck, get one shmuck free
In the capitalist party!
And there’s nothing left to get in the way
Of a full blue-light blow-out
Of the U.S. of A!
There’s a no-nothing back guarantee
A zero-year warranty
When you buy this land of the fritos, ruffles, lays..
This home of the braves, the chiefs, the reds, the slaves!
So call 1-800- i don’t care about shit
Or www.F*CK ALL OF IT!
To receive your credit for the fate of our nation-
(call now! Interest is at an all-time low)
But hurry shoppers!
Because america’s being downsized, citizens
And you’re all fired