Home Depot by Nick Annis

[Billy Burnett]

Run time: 03:06 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ5VCV8KWNY   Posted on YouTube: July 25, 2009 By YouTube Member: snapshotusic Views on YouTube: 509   Posted on DU: April 29, 2011 By DU Member: Billy Burnett Views on DU: 290

 
Home Depot

There’s miles of aisles of Chinese-made
Plastic tools by peasants paid
A living wage in bowls of rice so I can get the lowest price
that’s why I love Home Depot
The botanical diversity that was the jungle canopy
Is now a Guatemalan street
So I can buy these plywood sheets.
That’s why I love Home Depot
My ceiling fan’s a Boston Breeze
But the instructions are in Cantonese
I’m trying hard to read them
(WAN DAK TAW) means “find the stud”...
(TEH OOH SAHN) “there will be blood”...
Bring bandages and drywall mud,
The gods say you will need them.

Cause nothing’s built to last, you see
They make it fast and shoddily
But it’s good for the economy it keeps consumers buying
And what else are you gonna do
In the sheet-rock sheds of the chosen few
But pick a peck of drywall screws and just keep on trying...

“Made proudly in the USA” the box says in the big display
And this they’re not allowed to say unless it’s really true
But oh they’re wily like the fox
‘Cause they’re just talking ‘bout the box
The stuff inside was made with pride
By children of Hantsu…

There’s rows of hoses, pails of nails,
There’s stuff to fix the stuff that fails
To work the way it used to
When you bought it new last year
But a billion aftermarket parts
And wizards of the market arts
Will get you up and moving through these doors
And shopping here to these miles of aisles...