Neil Young The Restless Consumer Lyrics

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 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 dying 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 

So we don't learn from them 

Hate don't
negotiate with Good 



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 comsumer flies 

Around the world each day 

With such an appetite for efficiency 

And pace...



Don't
need no more lies.