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Your wants desires
Needs and wishes
Will be duly noted
Processed filed and cataloged
Labeled and encoded
Turned into sitcom dialog
And advertising slogans
We've got a box to put in your brain
Hard wired for downloading
All the secrets and the mysteries
You've been selfishly withholding
The dreams and hopes
That once were yours
Will now be collected and dispersed
So the first to come with cash to spend
Will be the first one served
We've got a box to put in your brain
Hard wired for downloading
All the secrets and the mysteries
You've been selfishly withholding
Make you think you like to be watched
Displayed on the auction block
Invaded in your own home
Stripped naked on the television
Humiliated in front of millions
We've got a box to put in your brain
Hard wired for downloading
All the secrets and the mysteries
You've been selfishly withholding
We've got a box to put in your brain
We've got a box to put in your brain
We've got a box to put in your brain
We've got a box to put in your brain
Your wants desires
Needs and wishes
Will be duly noted
Needs and wishes
Will be duly noted
Processed filed and cataloged
Labeled and encoded
Turned into sitcom dialog
And advertising slogans
Hard wired for downloading
All the secrets and the mysteries
You've been selfishly withholding
That once were yours
Will now be collected and dispersed
So the first to come with cash to spend
Will be the first one served
Hard wired for downloading
All the secrets and the mysteries
You've been selfishly withholding
Displayed on the auction block
Invaded in your own home
Stripped naked on the television
Humiliated in front of millions
Hard wired for downloading
All the secrets and the mysteries
You've been selfishly withholding
We've got a box to put in your brain
We've got a box to put in your brain
We've got a box to put in your brain
Needs and wishes
Will be duly noted
Song Info
Submitted by
agathakavka On Oct 05, 2002
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In many ways, this song is a rewriting of a passage from a Wendell Berry poem. That's not to say that this song isn't amazing, because it is. A portion of the poem pasted below:
“Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something they will call you. When they want you to die for profit they will let you know. So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it."
This song speaks of brainwashing of big business, materialism, and the media... Media and big business find out what we supposedly like and/or want... They repackage it as a NEED and sell it back to us for money.
tell us what we "want" until we believe it ourselves.
sounds something like reality tv