Planet E

Desire to make money rules everything and ruins everything
To buy, it seems, is the only thing we live for
Television, turning the world into one global village
Television, teaching us how to buy
Television, showing us what to buy
Our children, trained to be perfect consumers
The consumers of tomorrow
They are always gonna know
How to buy and what to buy
Any time, any place
And love is losing ground
I am losing ground
The people around me
All looking for this personal success
This personal gain
This personal profit
They go to work
They go to work
Leaving their brains at home
I am a lonely man
Conspicuous consumption
Consumer fantasizes
And deceives himself
Wish, obtain, use
Disappointment
New wish
A never ending cycle
Wish, obtain, use
Disappointment
New wish
A never ending cycle
Class, status, beauty, youth, inner emptiness
Real experience: talk, dance, fighting, making love
Let’s make love, you and me
You bring the body
And I’ll bring the beat
Come with me
Away from this society
Dominated by materialism
This society, with it’s businesslike character
Come with me
Away from this anonymous existence, in material safety
Come with me, my friend
Coz you’re my best friend
I’ve heard of this place
A faraway place
Some say it’s heaven
I wanna go there, to this place called heaven
I wanna go there
Coz I no longer wanna spend my life
In this noise, this smell, this dirt
I wanna go there
And put whipped cream on your body
And make it melt
We could share the pain
We could share the pain
Of seeing our fellow human beings heading for total destruction
Come with me
And we’ll look down
On the affluent society
Come, and we’ll look down on planet evil
A planet once so fierce, once so proud
Now vanishing right before our eyes
Right at this present time
Come and see the rise and fall of mankind
A desire to make money ruled everything and ruined everything
Come with me my friend
And we’ll see the end of history