Neil Young The Restless Consumer lyrics

The people have heard the news
The people have spoken
You may not like what they said
But they weren't jokin'

Way out on the desert sands
Lies a desperate lover
They call her the, "Queen of Oil"
So much to discover

Don't need no ad machine, telling me what I need
Don't need no Madison Avenue War
Don't need no more boxes, I can see
Covered in flags but I can't see them on TV

Don't need, no more lies
Don't need, no more lies
Don't need, no more lies
Don't need, no more lies

The restless consumer flies
Around the world each day
With such an appetite
For taste and grace

People from around the world
Need someone to listen
We're starving and dying from our disease
We need your medicine

How do you pay for war
And leave us dyin'?
When you could do so much more
You're not even tryin'

Don't need no TV ad
Tellin' me how sick I am
Don't want to leave, don't want to know
How many people are like me

Don't need no dizziness
Don't need no nausea
Don't need no side effects
Like diarrhea or sexual death

Don't need, no more lies

Don't need, no more lies
Don't need, no more lies
Don't need, no more lies

The restless consumer lies
Asleep in her hotel
With such an appetite
For anything that sells

A hundred voices from a hundred lands
Need someone to listen
People are starving here and there
They don't see the world the way you do

There's no mission accomplished here
Just death to thousands
A hundred voices from a hundred lands
Cry out in unison

Don't need no terror squad
Don't want no damned jihad
Blowin' themselves away in my hood
But we don't talk to them
And we don't learn from them
Hate, don't negotiate with good

Don't need
Don't need, no more lies
Don't need, no more lies
Don't need, no more lies
Don't need, no more lies

The restless consumer flies
Around the world each day
With such an appetite
For efficiency and pace

Don't need, no more lies
Don't need, no more lies
Don't need, no more lies
Don't need, no more lies

Don't need, no more lies