America Will Eat You - Greg Brown

There’s only so many times you can eat that

Rubber food

'Till You’re gonna say, Well, I’m eating it

I guess it must be good

There’s only so many times you can sit

And watch tv-

Stay detached and think it’s stupid

And that you’re somehow free

America will eat you

America will eat you up

There’s only so many times you can be

Treated like dirt at the airport or the bank

'Til you’re gonna say, Yeah, you’re right

I’m a bum I’m a dog I’m a roach

Thank you Thank you Thanks

Only so many times you can see some slick

Jerk rave about God

'Til you’re gonna give it up and go to sleep

And slip into a pod-

We’re tempting little morsels on the

Corporation’s fork

If we show up with the right bits and bytes

They’ll fatten us like pork

And America will stretch her maw and show

Us her white teeth

It’s only when it’s much too late we see

The cancer underneath

Everything has a number

We all must drink our cup

All I ask is to know when my number’s up

Looking at these corpses talk

And laugh it up on tv

All I want is to never have to ask

Lord, which corpse is me?