| Who needs rock and roll? |
| Who needs songs about saving your soul? |
| Plastic music, plastic food |
| Cellophane tunes for that synthetic mood |
| You got your inspiration from a vending machine |
| It’s an audio starvation diet |
| Mannequins on a shopping spree |
| Who cares if you like it? — Buy it |
| It’s everywhere I go, (go, go, go, go) |
| It programs my soul |
| It tells me what I need |
| Oh, it takes a mean lead, lead |
| Elevator music, (a capital idea) |
| Elevator music, (programmed just for you) |
| Elevating sales at the speed of sound |
| Soon you’ll be shopping in Sen-Surround |
| Controlling your wallet, coaxing your soul |
| The corporate big brother — it’s an overload |
| Get off that conveyor, that treadmill of persuasion |
| Jesus brings the light into every situation |
| It’s everywhere I go, (go, go, go, go) |
| It programs my soul |
| It tells me what I need |
| Oh, it takes a mean lead, lead |
| Elevator music, (it's a capital idea) |
| Elevator music, (programmed just for you) |
| Buy, buy, sell, sell, ee-ee-ow |
| Elevator music — it’s a failure in heaven |
| Elevator music — it’s a subtle kind of leaven |
| What this world needs is music that feeds |
| Not elevator music |
| Not elevator music |
| Dump all that elevator music |
| Get rid of elevator music |