You're obsesssed and distressed
  Cause you can't make any sense of the ludicrous nonsense
  and incipient senescence
  that will deem your common sense useless
  this aint no recess!
    I want to believe in you, but my plan keeps falling through
  I knoe I have to face the harshnes, grin and bear the truth
  And I have to walk this mile in my own shoes
  (and I'm no fool!)
    [Chorus]
  I'm materialist
  a full-blown realist
  (physical theorist)
  and I guess I'm full of doubt
  so I'm prone to hear you out and refuse
  I'm materialist
  There ain't no fear in this
  it's for all to see, so don't talk of hidden mysteries with me...
    Mind over matter, it really don't matter
  If the street's idle chatter turns your heart strings to tatters
  Flatter hopes don't flatter and soul batter won't congeal to mend
  a life that is shattered into shards
  Was it in the cards?
    The process of belief is an elixir when you're weak
  I must confess, at times I indulge it on the sneak
  but generally my outlook's not so bleak
  (and I'm not meek!)
    [Chorus]
  I'm materialist
  a full-blown realist
  (physical theorist)
  and I guess I'm full of doubt,
  but I'll gladly have it out with you
  I'm materialist
  I ain't no deist
  it's there for all to see, so don't of hidden mysteries with me
    Like Rome under Nero, our future's one big zero
  Recycling the past to meet the immediate needs
  And through it all we ramble forth with perservere and climb
  Our mountains of regret to sow our seeds
    I'm materialist
  I'm materiliast
  I'm materialist
  I'm materialist (hold)