Intro: Borrow borrow borrow buy buy buy (x2)
Shopping is the opiate of the masses.
We long for its exquisite eupho-ria.
Once mapped with latitude and longitude lines,
The world is now girdled and defined
By malls full of people, shuffling
With lacklustre lust, and staring
||: Into an infinity of empo-ria :||

Intro: Borrow borrow borrow buy buy buy (x2)
In Berlusconi’s Italy it was a deafening murmer.
“I shop, therefore I am . . . free.”
Shopping has replaced religion and political decree.
Who cares about voting when you can buy for you,
Buy, buy, for me!?
Once all roads led to Rome eternally.
Now, shopping malls all leave you numb emotionally.
||:An army as great as Caesar’s legions trudge behind their trolleys:||

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Brand name culture. Load up the Michelangelos,
You can’t be seen without one, silly!
Get your Raphaels to the checkout.
Retail therapy, stick your neck out.
||:Benetton blurs with Botticelli, Angelica with Armani:||

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Ships of State. Shops of State.
Shopping makes democracy great.
In Italy, in Dubai, in Kensington . . . it’s the action.
We are consumers, not citizens,
With a buy-instead-of-think reaction.
||:I shop, therefore I am - It’s a ubiquitous distraction:||