The Comrades: "Target Market"

Written by Jimmy Williams, 1999.

Targeted by nefarious nostalgia
Disillusion becomes a fad
Promising to make us feel good
Then doing your damndest to keep us feleing bad

Target market - padded pockets full of profits for you
Target market - the demographic goldmine being tapped unrefined
Target market - our predicament is sold back to us
Target market - the magic carpet jerked out from under us again

Helplessness becomes a fashion statement
Self-hatred becomes a trend
Aimlessness becomes a meaningless movement
Cacaphony becomes another movie soundtrack

Target market - padded pockets full of profits for you
Target market - the demographic goldmine being tapped unrefined
Target market - our predicament is sold back to us
Target market - the magic carpet jerked out from under us again

Incessantly showered by the flowing fountain of false youth
While you drink the sweet nectar squeezed from the bitter fruits of our struggle
But I'm hip to your game, I'm hip to your game
And there are many more like me to say
That your aim is way off and who refuse to be your

Generation Xpatriated
Generation Xploited
Generation Xpatriated
Generation Xploited
Generation Xpatriated
Generation Xploited

Target market - padded pockets full of profits for you
Target market - the demographic goldmine being tapped unrefined
Target market - our predicament is sold back to us
Target market - the magic carpet jerked out from under us again