There's only so many times you can eat that
   rubber food
'Till You're gonna say, Well, I'm eating it.
   I guess it must be good
There's only so many times you can sit
   and watch tv--
Stay detached and think it's stupid
   and that you're somehow free

Oh, America will eat you
Oh, America will eat you
Oh, America will eat you up.  

There's only so many times you can be
   treated like dirt at the airport or the bank
'Til you're gonna say, Yeah, you're right
   I'm a bum I'm a dog I'm a roach
   Thank you Thank you Thanks
Only so many times you can see some slick
   jerk rave about God
'Til you're gonna give it up and go to sleep
   and slip into a pod--

Oh, America will eat you
Oh, America will eat you
Oh, America will eat you up.

We're tempting little morsels on the
   corporation's fork
If we show up with the right bits and bytes,
   they'll fatten us like pork
And America will stretch her maw and show
   you her white teeth
It's only when it's much too late we see
   the cancer underneath

Oh, America will eat you
Oh, America will eat you
Oh, America will eat you up.

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~

Everything has a number
   We all must drink our cup
All I ask is to know when my number's up
Looking at these corpses talk
   and laugh it up on tv
All I want is to never have to ask,
   Lord, which corpse is me?

Oh, America will eat you
Oh, America will eat you
Oh, America will eat you up.