[Intro – spoken samples and singing]
"It is critical that stuff break down, fail, and expire within a certain amount of time. This is termed 'planned obsolescence'..."
"They time those things – they time 'em. So when you've finally paid for them, they're used up..."
Generate long-term sales
By reducing the time between purchases!
Generate long-term sales
By reducing the time between purchases!
[Verse 1]
They told us we could be
Whatever we can dream
Buy your way to happiness
And join the team
But the architects
Worked in perfect flaws
The blueprint was drawn
Every effect has a cause
Society fashioned
With meticulous precision
To ensure our ongoing
Subdued positions!
[Chorus]
Designed to fail
Just like you
Designed to fail
Just like you
Designed to fail
Just like you
Designed to fail
Just like you
Designed to fail
Just like you
Designed to fail
Just like you
Designed to fail
Just like you
Designed to fail!
[Verse 2]
Society’s corrupt
And built to fail
From our old futures
To products for sale
We’ll end up on the
Landfills of tomorrow
And want more goods
To buy, beg or borrow
Playing by the rules
Like rats in a maze
To help corporations
Money must they raise
It doesn’t matter
If they make it shit!
We’re still craven enough
To fucking buy it!
We still fucking buy it!
[Bridge]
You are not any use to me now
You are not any use to me now
You are not any use to me now
You are not any use to me
You are not any use to me now
You are not any use to me now
You are not any use to me now
You are not any use to me
[Chorus]
Designed to fail
Just like you
Designed to fail
Just like you
Designed to fail
Just like you
Designed to fail
Just like you
Designed to fail
Just like you
Designed to fail
Just like you
Designed to fail
Just like you
Designed to fail!
[Verse 3]
Spend disposable cash
On disposable crap
While we pillage the planet
For resources to sap
Suicidal workers
Slave away
Keep the line rolling
Never waste a day
We need
New! Shiny! Flashy! Things
For us westerners
The empty joy it brings
And when they break
We’ll just ship it back
To the Global South
They can take the flack
Out of sight and out of mind
Not our problem anymore
Mine those metals, melt that plastic
Gimme more! Gimme more! Gimme more! Gimme more!
Gimme more! Gimme more! Gimme more!
Gimme more! Gimme fucking more!
(Just like you – it was designed to fail!)
[Outro]
You are not any use to me now!
You are not any use to me now!
You are not any use to me now!
You are not any use to me!
You are not any use to me now!
You are not any use to me now!
You are not any use to me now!
You are not any use to me!
You are no use to me...
You are no use to me...
You are so useless