Suez Canal Lyrics

The only code I know at the self-checkout

I feel you checking me out

As I fumble with the barcode

No I do not want to buy your bags

No I do not want to donate to your cause

No I did not try to sneak an avocado

Shiny, shiny, shiny fruits of yellow

Peel slowly and see

Now I'm thinking about this guy

Who had to chop it down

Takes it to a man who does much less

The money changes hands

United fruits of labour loaded on a refrigerated craft

Port to port, Panamax, Suez Canal

How much metaphor can you pack into a commodity

Crossbreed it for sweetest sweetest tasting easiest to feed

Each a carbon copy of the DNA we prefer to eat

Taken from its native soil and brought out to the colonies

Made the primary focus of their captive economies

Loss leading our all-convenient life for sixty cents a pound

Now I'm back in line

Customer service

Shiny, shiny floor model demo

Returned for free

Now I'm thinking about this pile

A plastic mountain land

Stuffed into a box hydraulic ram

The toys make their last sound

Lithium ion future proof give in to consumer demand

Port to port, Panamax, Suez Canal

How much effort spent create disposable society

Short term cheaper to destroy it price back guarantee

Look we're helping they can mine it for the metal in the PCBs

Offset carbon credits greenwash laundering intangibly

Out of jurisdiction pierce the veil global accountancy

Cost of doing business we'll just drop the garbage in the Philippines

Port to port, Panamax, Suez Canal