Sold In America
In America, you can buy anything ...
if you got enough money
Purchase yourself a new identity,
but do you got enough money
to get the plastic surgery
And of course, there’s always the black market
to provide near-perfect counterfeit ID
If you got enough money,
that is who you can now be
All access society,
all interpersonal variety
Love comes in any size or shade
Mail order brides can arrive
special delivery shipped overnight
Only one little problem: ain’t none of it free
You can buy anything in America,
if you got enough money
Straight cash can get a power broker
to sell you some heavy peddle influence
You can make a lot of noise,
yelling in the private suite
of the owner of the Dallas Cowboys
But that takes some serious money
If you like living in seven-star hotels,
plush spa chateau villas
How ‘bout living in the air on a private jet
that ain’t even being sold on the market yet
You can buy it all, right here in America,
if you got enough money, cous
But there’s only one little loophole:
don’t you be the one getting sold!
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