Corporations - Martha Tilston

Sometimes I’m invisible,

just another PIN number.

I put my card in the machine.

I pay to withdraw my soul,

spend more,

consume,

look rich.

And all the corporations

have a duty to the shareholders

to sit round a big table

and cut every slice just as fat.

they’ve got to make more

consume

get rich.

But if money is invisible

and it generally makes you miserable.

Do you see where I’m going with this

what are we all hunting?

tatoot-ta-ta.

totootatoto

And here am I

on a mountain.

I’m ever so high on a mountain.

Sometimes I just stand on a mountain

of thoughts like these.

What if all the universities

have their spinoff companies?

What if you’re a bright spark?

You’re working before you know you are,

head down,

research,

don’t ask what for.

Sometimes we throw a party

get a little arty

roll our stockings down

dance round the kitchen, the kitchen, the kitchen.

We get high,

let go,

get loud,

And the neighbours are banging on the walls.

They want to bring back hanging, of course.

What are we all hunting here,

what are we all hunting?

tatoot-ta-ta.

totootatoto

tatoot-ta-ta.

totootatoto

And here am I in a front room

in a Galloway

He’s on the TV

asking all the questions

I just love to ask.

Like what about the war,

what was that for?

Yeah, what about the war,

what was that for?

We want peace,

release,

let go…

Sometimes we throw a party.

we get a little arty.

We get our instruments out.

Play round the table, the table, the table.

It gets us high

we let go,

we get loud

And the neighbours are banging on the walls.

They want to bring back hanging, of course.

What are we all hunting,

what are we all hunting?

tatoot-ta-ta.

totootatoto

tatoot-ta-ta.

totootatoto

And here am I

on this mountain

and I’m ever so high on a mountain.

Sometimes I just sit on a mountain

of thoughts like these.

Sometimes I’m invisible,

just another PIN number.

I put my card in the machine

withdraw my soul again.