VERSE 1:

true to ourselves and to be someone

alternative to a loaded gun

bound by the law - if it of physics,

then what kind of world are we living in

where we work hard just to get what we got

to divide us apart into the have and the have-not's?

CHORUS:

living in the material world

do anything to get what you need

the money honey caught in a war

who's living above it? we live it, you love it.

SUPERFICIALITY.

VERSE (2):

first to the top comes the first man down

while wealth and prestige have become profound.

cheat and deceive just to get what we need

and sex on the film is of a fantasy

diamonds, furs, luxury cars...

sky scraper dreams come to fall when if heavy.

CHORUS:

you're born in a material world

and nothing but a dream is for free

the finer things should be a reward,

living so lavish but you got to have it.

BRIDGE:

there's no happily when we're never happy

we see everything - then we want everything.

can't take anything if we're non-existing

happiness and being ain't non-essential things.

there's no happily when we're never happy, no. 

CHORUS:

living in a material world

do anything to get what we need.

the money -honey caught in a war, oh.

who's living above it? we live it, we love it.

BREAK:

commercialize it for me, may pay you anything

and digitize it for me, I might show you everything.

when economically - it makes the world advance,

though superficially, it's t.v. at a glance

I'm a material boy with the world in my hands.

CHORUS:

fast cars in a material world

and fortune paves the way to a greed,

might be sitting up on top of the world,oh.

but without it the dollar, no poppin' the collar.

OUTRO:

p-p-p-popping up your collar (makin' motions)

spending all your dollars (doin' big thang).

golden in your pocket (diamond wallet)

diamonds on your wallet (doin't big thangs).

spending all your money (alterin' your body)

altering your body (doin' big thangs).

REPEAT to FADE

this is the title and album track from the forthcoming digital album entitled #thematerialworld, due out June 2018.