Shop Till You Drop
The Manufacturers Dream Amalgamation
Please — drift with your trolleys
and do take your pick
grab multiple packets
spend more — that’s the trick!
Swallow our pills to cure your ills
your health’s in our tablets
our bottles and creams
we provide answers to your shopping dreams
so you can continue in optimum health
and keep on providing our fabulous wealth
The things that we sell can make people unwell
but then we can fix it and tricks it and mix it
The things that we sell can make people too fat
then we can trim them and slim them and gym them
Your health’s in our tablets
our bottles and creams
we want you to continue
your bright shopping dreams
As you drift with our baskets
oh please take your pick
get that great bargain
you’ll have to be quick
it’s all brightly wrapped
so each pack’s a present
to pick from the aisle
is so easy and pleasant
Now don’t you bother to chop or to dice
it’s all in the packet so yummy and nice
with cellophane wrapping its cooked in a trice
with no washing up
you don’t have to think twice
it’s all done in plastic and polly-styrene
your kitchens all shrink-wrapped
hygienically clean
Just cook in your programmed imagination
Oliver/Blumenthal cook for the nation
We have the readies all perfectly wrapped
we keep in the goodness so perfectly trapped
you have the readies to perfectly buy
its perfect – delicious — so why don’t you try
Luckily your sugar programmed
Luckily to like our products
Luckily we have your buying patterns
right here on file –so smile
Luckily we get to know just what you want
Luckily before you do
Luckily we’ll suggest it
Luckily we’re your friend
Luckily you can friend us on Facebook
Luckily we can see
if you are swimming with us in the cyberspace sea
Luckily your movements are now known to us — no fuss
Luckily we can share everything
Luckily we only want to make
your buying experience an event — until you’re spent
Health’s all in a bottle a tube or a pill
the things that we sell here?
they won’t make you ill
you can be sure that there’s no trick
to finding a cure just for you — if your sick
So if through stress
your health is less
we have all the answers here — under one roof
just look at our magazines if you want proof
you don’t have to worry
our foods carbon dated
and bar code sedated
As good shepherds we herd them
in loyalty fields
and look very carefully
at their buying yields
branded we fold them
behind coded baa-rs
we think of them fondly
as being ours
their movements are watched now
and deftly encoded
no freedoms eroded
info-tell uploaded
Now the drive to be thin is making them fatter
the fashions not thinking but to endless chatter
now sitting in silence in real time with friends
while facebooking others
while twittering trends
while endlessly tapping the button that sends
while tracking the trackless in deep cyber space
while programs are running to keep up the pace
Now physically dormant they get supersize
The sofas their playground
and doughnuts the prize.
Our medical gold mine will give you a fix
do have some more of our new sweet food mix
and now that you’re thirsty
buy some fizz pop
one hundred varieties
just in this one shop
You’re feeling puffy
oh that’s such a shame
but really there’s no one else that’s to blame
We’ll welcome your waddle
through our hospital door
we’ll put you right
you can be sureOur up-market hospital’s clean and bright
whatever is wrong we’ll put you right
we’ve thousands of pills to get you well
so we can enable your basket to swell
It’s the junk food to slim pills inviting swing door
buy crisps
need our potions
oh do try some more
we’ll be all the choices
that you’ll ever make
and provide you the dream
from which you’ll never wake
We really just want you
to be there to spend
we want you to shop
till you drop in the end