Great song, and video too.
I transcribed the words overlaid on the video, which I think illustrate the intention behind the lyrics:
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Excuse me! Excuse me! Excuse me!
Every year we eat 7.3 billion burgers and 6570 acres of pizza. Every year we spend 18 billion dollars on ice cream. Every year we spend 50 billion dollars on weight loss programs. Every year we spend 18 billion dollars on pet food. Every year we spend $27,000,000,000 on making ourselves look good and 14 billion dollars on smelling nice. A car is born every 2 seconds. Every year we drink 500,000,000,000 litres of milk. Every day we slaughter 1,000,000 cows, 1,200,000 sheep, 2,800,000 pigs and 70,000,000 chickens. Every year we spend 260 billion dollars on cigarettes. Every year we spend 300 billion dollars on alcohol. Every year we spend 5,000,000,000 dollars on pain killers. Every year we spend 50,000,000,000 dollars on pornography, 3 billion dollars on viagra. Every year we spend 20,000,000,000 dollars on anti-depressants and 14 billion dollars on anti-phychotics. Every year we spend 161,000,000,000 dollars on breast implants. Kill people. Every day 137,000 new cars roll off the production line and we dump enough aluminium cans to build 7 jumbo jets. Every year we spend $150,000,000,000 on pharmaceutical drugs and $150,000,000,000 on street drugs. We buy 674,000,000 mobile phones and 10,000,000 cars.
(fast repeat of earlier words)
Every day we use 23,000,000 miles of toilet paper and 9,000,000,000,000 gallons of water to flush it away.
Every hour we spend 100 million dollars on guns, bombs, mines, tanks and stuff to kill people.
This is the excuse that we are making. Is it good enough for what you are paying?
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There are clearly anti-war, anti-waste, anti-drug messages from this.
umm it's actually "i can shout" not "i've been shout"
On the DVD Nancy Whang says that Stephen Dewaele flew to NY especially to see her, but he told the record label that they were going to record a song together so the label would pay for it all... so the song ended up being the "excuse" that they made.