Commercialized society, dehumanizing all I see

Welcome to the New American Dream

Culture's a commodity, if it can't be sold it ain't worth a thing

Fattened for the kill, no one's hearing the screams

There are police on every corner, their badges say "Place Your Ad Here"

I turned on the news to try and get the facts

And the only headline that I saw said, "Nothing To See Here."

They sell us freedom with our Coke, but our democracy's a joke

They've got the information

And while we buy into the sham, they're busy tying all our hands

Here in our Corporate Nation

They hook us young like a dealer with a lie to sell

Load us up with junk so we won't see the hell

They're leading us, they're feeding us to

They own the place you work and the shows you see,

Where you lay your head while they define your dreams

It's a free market for them, Stalinism to you

And all the public schools get privatized

But we are told to have no fear

But when Nike owns your high school don't be too surprised

To see sections of the history book on labor disappear

They're gonna teach our children well, what to buy and how to sell

They've got the information

Instead of swastikas, a swoosh, but it's the same old Hitler Youth

Here in our Corporate Nation

Life's more than a transaction for someone to exploit

And unless we take some action, we're gonna end up with no choice

Cultural Monopoly, Undermined Democracy

Welcome to the New American Dream

Our government's been bought and sold so many times we don't even know

Who's holding the reigns in the land of the free

But they keep saying my vote matters

And so I stepped into the booth

But the only thing I got to really choose between

Was the co