Desperation

There are women on the billboards and in commercials on TV
There are women selling products with their own bodies
Women selling beer
Cigarettes and gum
Women acting shallow-minded and inherently dumb
Women selling cars
Cosmetics and attire
Telling us to look good
This is what's required
There are women on the corners selling themselves upon the streets
Why are women so expected to sell their own sexuality?

There are women in magazines to tell us how to act
Manipulating us as children
Telling us it's fact
There are women who have figured out to make a decent wage
It's worth the humiliation
Of dancing on a stage

Greedy eyes fixed on her
She has to hold a smile
Cause she's single with two children
And the pay makes it worth while
They pay women for their sexuality
They know that it will sell
And some women see the money
As an escape from their own hell

Ohh ooh oh
Desperation
Ohh ooh oh
Desperation
Ohh ooh oh
Desperation
(It's time to rethink and relearn, and open up our eyes)
Oh oh oh
Desperation

Both the sex industry and advertisers
Feed on desperation
Preying on inequality
The accepted male/female relation
The more insecure the better
That's when we believe their lies
It's time to rethink and relearn
And open up our eyes
And open up our eyes
It's time to open our eyes
Open up our eyes