Tell me, can the hateful chain be broken?
Production and consumption define our hollow lives
Avarice has led us 'cross the ocean
Toward a land that's better, much more bountiful and wide
So when will mankind finally come to realize
His surfeit has become his demise?
How much is enough to kill yourself?
That quantity is known today
As we blow ourselves away
Tell me, is there anything so sure?
Rapacity, tenacity, capacity for more
Like a dog that feeds until he suffers
The infirmity of man is brought on by his selfish cure
Production and consumption define our hollow lives
Avarice has led us 'cross the ocean
Toward a land that's better, much more bountiful and wide
So when will mankind finally come to realize
His surfeit has become his demise?
How much is enough to kill yourself?
That quantity is known today
As we blow ourselves away
Tell me, is there anything so sure?
Rapacity, tenacity, capacity for more
Like a dog that feeds until he suffers
The infirmity of man is brought on by his selfish cure
Lyrics submitted by oofus, edited by Mellow_Harsher
How Much Is Enough? Lyrics as written by Brett Gurewitz
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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His surfeit has become his demise?" the line is saying that humans are are striving too much for more. It is saying that we, as humans, will advance ourselves to the point of our distruction. "Avarice has led us 'cross the ocean,
Toward a land that's better, much more bountiful and wide." this is directed towards america as a whole. In Europes search for more, they crossed the ocean and discovered America. "Like a dog that feeds until he suffers" we are this dog. We will "feed" ourselves to we suffer, we will advance and advance and advance and in the end, we will end up suffering, or even dead. That i my view point.
society is consumed by consumption and material product
and society will feed of that until theres nothing left
and the rich greedy capitalists will continue to reap the benifits of this system
our suffer=there profit