Its all inter-related to lifestyle.
Well I think it's fine, building jumbo planes
Or taking a ride on a cosmic train
Switch on summer from a slot machine
Yes, get what you want to if you want, 'cause you can get anything
You can get anything. We are reaping what we were sold.
Well you roll on roads over fresh green grass
For your lorry loads, pumping petrol gas
And you make them long, and you make them tough
But they just go on and on, and it seems that you can't get off
It seems that you can't get off. It was easier to accept and enjoy the ride.
Well you've cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air
But will you keep on building higher till there's no more room up there
Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry?
Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?
Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?
They're trying
I know we've come a long way
We're changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?
That is the question.
Where do the children play?
Yusuf Islam
I am not without sin in regards to some lifestyle choices but I never got into the materialistic world. Sure I wanted a decent vehicle, good shoes and a great guitar, but the idea of having it all just seemed indecent. Could be because of the grinding poverty I saw when I was stationed in Alabama, or the conditions the Vietnamese lived in while we poured untold billions into destroying their land.
I know that drinking a certain brand of beer is not going to get me that girl. I know that a fast food meal is not going to make me really happy even if only cost a buck. I know a certain fragrance will not have the women swooning over me. And I know that don't need a 3,000 sq ft house or a 300 HP car. I probably kill myself with one of those.
It seems a lot of people buy into those ideas, otherwise why do they keep selling us on those fantasies? "Tastes great!" "Less filling!" "You've arrived in your new Cadillac." Mad men indeed.
We were warned.
Big yellow taxi
Joni Mitchell
I'll let one of the greatest Americans human being finish
Garbage
Pete Seeger