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Advertease

from The Singles Album by Bob Read

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Capitalism and advertising,,,,hmmm

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Advertease

Billboards scream out their message
To we peasants down here below
Filling us with the confusion
Of a better life they foretold
Cars and houses, clothes and baubles
Trips to places undisclosed
Why should we be of our own nature
When we can be like one of those

It beckons to us from our TV screens
Come on, be just the way I seem
It’s mass delusion, a conjurers dream
Nothing is really what it seems

Calling through the dark, a voice will speak
Trying to sell us what we can’t be.

Advertease, come on, come on, come on and try it
Advertease, if you like me, you’ll buy it

Well, a man comes on and says real cool,
If you want to be liked you’ve got to play the fool
So you rush right out to the local square
To get perfumes, lipstick, things for your hair
Skin tight jeans, the right magazines
Keeps you in touch with the local scene
The right shops, the right bars
The right car when you go too far
With belted tires to ease the ride
And all the extras tucked inside
It’s a funny world, it’s a funny place
It’s a crazy race

Advertease
Advertease

Well, the ad men scramble to catch the angle
While the suit screams to get some more
It’s a circular fandango
With some person they’ve known before.

Advertease
Advertease, they’re going to get you in the end, ya, huh huh
Advertease
Advertease, they’re going to buy, going to buy, buy, buy me
Advertease
Advertease, you’re looking good out there, you’re looking good, oh yea

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from The Singles Album, released September 25, 2020

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