Advertising Man Lyrics - Singles - David Wilcox

If you want some real contentment, to live life at its best 

You can buy these dry tobacco leaves, to breathe into your chest 

And then look up at the billboard 

While all the promises come true, for you 

You'll feel alive with pleasure, playful as a child 

You've come to where the freedom is, you're cool and mild. 

You'll laugh with every lungful 

As the change comes over you 

So look up at the billboard 

See her smiling, sexy and tan 

But the only one who's laughing 

Is the advertising man 

Those portraits of pleasure, of those who like to smoke 

They're laughing in the photograph, but we don't get the joke 

Now why would they be smiling 

While they're looking down our way? 

I guess they're making easy money climbing up the rungs 

From selling us a parasite that's feeding on our lungs 

They must be laughing in astonishment 

That we believe the things they say 

So look up at the billboard 

See her smiling, sexy and tan 

But the only one who's laughing 

Is the advertising man 

Now crack will kill you quickly, that's why it's got to go 

They'll get more of your money if they kill you nice and slow 

Yeah, the only one who's laughing 

Is the advertising man