Trembling

If you’re scared of growing older…
If you think your teeth are yellow…
If you fear you’re getting fatter…
Buy this pill, this cream, this car!

If you’re scared to go out walking…
How about all those school shootings…
Wondering where they get those guns…
You know at War-Mart, you can buy one

Read a couple magazines and get your dose of insecurity…
Don’t forget to switch the channel…
And catch the evening news…
See how scary the real world is…
See how dangerous the streets are…
Lucky, that commercial shows you how you can buy it all away!

CHORUS:
No matter where you go
There’s nowhere you can go…
To buy peace of mind….
To buy peace of mind….
And no matter what you say
I can’t make you see that you are just fine…
Don’t you know that at the end of the day
They just want to keep you trembling…
They just want to keep you trembling…

I guess I fail to see the logic…
In killing other people’s children…
Just in case they might grow up to hate us later on…
Some say guns will make us safer…
And that bombs will ward of danger…
I see profit being made by keeping you and me afraid…

CHORUS:
No matter where you go there’s nowhere you can go …
To buy peace of mind…
To buy peace of mind…
And no matter what you say,
I can’t make you see that you are just fine…
Don’t you know that at the end of the day…
They just want to keep you trembling…
They just want to keep you trembling…

My country ’tis of thee…
Sweet land of misery…
To thee I sing!
To thee I sing!