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I tried to listen to the radio
They played a good song from some time ago
It was quite hard to hear
through the sound of the people ordering beer
I heard a man say things about the song
I looked at him and said: ‘You must be wrong’
He turned to me and said:
‘You’re a marketeer’s toy until you’re dead
Do not think your life is real; sly men decide how we feel
Do take this from me; everything that we see
was the vision of a guy from Coca-Cola
They made you and me into their devotee,
even those who don’t even like their brew’
I tried to turn my mind back to the song
‘I’d like to teach the world’; that wasn’t long
His smile was turning grim
So I moved a few stools away from him
He turned to me again:
‘So you’re rather a blind and ignorant man?
Do not think your life is real; sly men decide how we feel
Do take this from me; everything that we see
was the vision of a guy from Coca-Cola
They made you and me into their devotee,
even those who don’t even like their brew
Do take this from me; everything that we see
was the vision of a guy from Coca-Cola
They made you and me into their devotee,
even those who don’t even like their brew’
copyright Gideon Hekkenberg