Bread and Circuses
Seas are boiling and the sky is bleaker
toddlers toiling making hipster sneakers
the market's falling and the dollar is weaker
tomorrow is calling but I'm too scared to meet her
Gimme a pill for ten-hour erections
gimme an idol carved from applause and electrons
gimme surgery to fool natural selection
gimme a reason not to ask any questions
Cities drowning as the rivers keep rising
bombs in the hair gel on the planes that we're flying
business is booming but I'm barely surviving
the future is near and I can't stop it from arriving
Gimme game shows where I won't be a failure
gimme Britney so I can be morally superior
gimme my close-up and make the world my mirror
don't ask me to give a damn cuz I don't wanna hear ya
Gimme bread and circuses
so we forget the worst of it
gimme bread and circuses
the more we get, the worse it is
Now you can shake it like a Polaroid picture while I'm comin'
atcha with a lecture like I'm a college professor
cleanin' up the mess that ya left up
on the table -- I'm ready, willing, able
but I won't enable your addiction to the fictional
depictions on the screen like you were Leonard Maltin
consider this your funk intervention
as we step on the scene like we're NATO fixin' Balkans
Hunger and viruses, can someone tell me why it is
the plight of the poorest in the richest societies
never gets told in bold in the headline news,
selling red wine and booze, peddling lies as true
and what about the rule to be the keeper of your brother
Arabs and Jews flingin' cruise missiles at each other
dig up the truth like Deep Throat deep undercover
and the man'll cut your mike like you're Dick and Tommy Smothers
Gimme a pill for ten-hour erections
gimme an idol carved from applause and electrons
gimme surgery to fool natural selection
gimme a reason not to ask any questions
Gimme bread and circuses
so we forget the worst of it
gimme bread and circuses
the more we get, the worse it is