[«Before settling down in your easy chair to listen to this album, may we make a suggestion? Take your phone off the hook. Someone might call during the next half-hour or so and interrupt your fun.»]
I promise you a safety guaranteed by aeroplanes,
By boats and tanks and bombs and guns
Well, it don’t work too well, but you’re too busy to complain
I promise you a progress guaranteed by corporate greed,
By profit, gain and the bottom line
It might work for some, but then again, it kills the rest
I promise you salvation guaranteed by God above,
By donations to the pockets of the saved
It might not work at all, but we don’t really know for sure,
I promise you a life of cigarettes and cocaine,
Vacations, girls, sun and wine
It’s a fantasy that sells, but your reality stays the same