30 Seconds

So tell me, why has the climate flipped?
The truth is black and white like Nanaimo chips
Or the No Logo logo, used to buy hardcore for dolo
Now I’m trying to put holes in their barcodes like promos
Shit, I even know why we spend
Companies concentrate on our camp like IBM
Ever seen a CEO smile? They get focused as hell
Coal burners after oil murders, ghosts in the Shell
Hello, what’s yellow and red and Bush’s fellow in bed?
You better get the point like stilettos to head
Dead, right, they map out a path that’d kill a tourist
There’s smoke on the water, straight outta Philip Morris
Look at Wal-Mart, they thug down the nicest
Gun through their sweatshops and run down the prices
As far as wrong plans go
They’re a bigger public enemy than Flavor Flav working for Monsanto

[Chorus] x 2
Don’t spend a dime until they get the price filed
Even I’m selling a lifestyle
Testing the cost, from freshest temp to veteran boss
30 seconds gets my message across

I am a man at odds with companies far from even-handed
But I’ve even handed out cash for their jeans and hats
It’s seeming that I contradict quite slightly
Conflicted, wearing orange, blue and white Nikes
But does it really make a difference since everyone’s interest is green paper
Many companies thrive off cheap labour
Like I told this punk to watch his feet, he said “fuck off”
Told him Nike owns Converse, you aren’t safe with Chucks on
Now it seems what you wear is a cotton ideology
Or a homespun philosophy for grown-up autonomy
But you are not alone like a festival lineup
Your closet, to find the tree that they want you to climb up
I’m not hung up on thrift stores, but I feel a little better
Spending cheddar on a used button-up or sweater
I won’t say stop buying cause it isn’t realistic
But cop because you want it, make your own damn decisions

[Chorus] x 2
Don’t spend a dime until they get the price filed
Even I’m selling a lifestyle
Testing the cost, from freshest temp to veteran boss
30 seconds gets my message across

First, you are being watched and I’m not fucking paranoid
A pair of boys with pens are getting locked to your latitude
An attitude to get is real smart with your aptitude
Before you let ‘em in, quite proper to batter you
Your game’s not all fixed, because your name’s on a list
You’re an actor in a play and they’re not changing the script
It’s amazing descent, grassy knoll, magic bullet
Had to pull from a tape loop, don’t get juiced like a grapefruit
Product placement in your moving pictures, hatred in your schooling system
Forsake your patron saint, cause the president will use religion
For his own devices, vice grip, grip tape, tape roll
Roll up, up start, start this, this play is a display
Of politrickery, Kerry, wouldn’t call it victory
Whether red or blue, they’re giving you wood like hickory
This is the gravest record of vast instruction
Signing off, Cadence Weapon of mass destruction

[Chorus] x 2
Don’t spend a dime until they get the price filed
Even I’m selling a lifestyle
Testing the cost, from freshest temp to veteran boss
30 seconds gets my message across