With the perfect hair and the perfect wife And the perfect kids and the perfect life I can finally be somebody Let's play born-again American, resistance is the game Two pigs wearing suits brought the news That I'm wanted by the bank They say the rent is due, Caesar's onto you So you better remember your place Then they outsourced my job and gave a raise to my boss And bailed out the banks but billed me for the loss They say we must submit and be one with the machines' Cause the kingdom of fear needs compliance to succeed So water board the kids for fun, it's all the rage And play born-again American, resistance is the game Smash the control machine, work, buy, consume, die Smash the control machine, happy little slaves for minimum wage The revolution will be monetized And streamed live via renegade Wi-FiThe clinic said I'm sick, toxic and impure But there isn't any cure for the poor or uninsured Do we live our digital lives on multiple screens? And we forget that the blood of the workers greased the machines In the psalm of the fiends, love discriminates While the fat cats feed the rats their daily dose of cake So water board the kids for fun, it's all the rage And play born-again American, resistance is the game Smash the control machine, work, buy, consume, die Smash the control machine, happy little slaves for minimum wage Smash the control machine, work, buy, consume, die Smash the control machine, haters, betrayers, liars and thieves America, she sold her soul for designer clothes For the perfect lips and the perfect nose The winner in the end always owns the most Reality TV told her so Money changer, greedy bankers, this is the peoples house My minister has a sinister plan to save my soul with a credit card scam Exploitation is contagious for the selfish and self inflated Start a war, use the poor, watch our profits soar and soar We've become a nation of wolves ruled by sheep Owned by swine and overfed and put to sleep And while the media elite decrees what to think I am wide awake on the edge and on the brink So when atlas shrugs and The Fountainhead bleeds And when Wall Street apostles preach a gospel of greed I'll renounce the fame of this gluttonous age And be a born-again American, resistance is to blame Smash the control machine, work, buy, consume, die Smash the control machine, haters, betrayers, liars and thieves Smash the control machine, a nation of wolves ruled by sheep Exploitation is contagious Exploitation is contagious Exploitation is contagious Exploitation