Tom: D
D C Bm
The first world's got greedy, we're consuming it all
D Bm
The third world's got hunger and military control
Bm
This unequal balance is a master plan
D C Bm
One gets rich from the other's land
D C Bm D
Bm D C
They've got it all worked out
C D C Bm
and we give our consent
[Verse]
D C Bm
They've got it all worked out for Central America
D Bm
They've got it all worked out for Africa
D
And in our naivety we believe myths and overconsume
D
And give them our consent
D
Dying in the shadow of the USA
D
"Let them eat bullshit, make the land pay"
D C
Make a fast deal with the local elite
D
Then substitute cash-crops where once grew wheat
A C
Build a cycle of dependence on a starvation-diet
D E
With food as a weapon, workers stay quiet
[Verse]
A G
And multinational names have blood on their brands
A G
From taking an interest in misused lands
D G
Del Monte, Tate & Lyle, Ralston Purina
D
Coca-Cola, RTZ, and Unilever
D
All packaging lifestyles for the glamorous west
D
Expand the company, exploit the rest
[Instrumental]
G A D G A D
G A D G A D
G A D G A D
[Verse]
D G
We are not isolated by distance
A D A G
But by greed and our racist history
A D A
Just a wall's width away
G A
Still impossible to see across
D A G
This space in front on me
[Bridge]
A D A
It's we who write this history
G A
We who guard the money-tree
D A
We support the companies
G A
We stole the colonies
D G A D A G
[Refrain]
D A
And when the system starts to crack
G A
We'll have to ready to give it all back
D A
And when the system starts to crack
G A
We'll have to ready to give it all back
D A
And when the system starts to crack
G A
We'll have to ready to give it all back
D Db C Bm
[Bridge]
D Dbm C Bm
See the space which lies between the rich and the poor
D Dbm C Bm
How the space increases as we keep on taking more
D Db C Bm
Keeping that space between us all
D Db C Bm
Is how the west can keep control...
[Instrumental]
D Db C Bm
D Db C Bm
[Verse]
D Db
With a mission and a chequebook promising aid
C Bm
Posing for the camera the United Nations man came
D Db
He talked of control and the terrible drought
C Bm
And the way that the west would bail them out
D C
They he stopped smiling and talked conditions
D C
Of mutual aid; of American wishes
D
Sending in aid with sewn-on strings
D
If they won't buy arms - then it's pulled back in
D G
Feeding the world American style
A C
Col Sanders has an empire behind his smile
A D
Back up the investments with a military regime
A C
Then cleverly say: "It's to keep the world free!"
[Instrumental]
D Db C Bm
D Db C Bm
[Verse]
D
But the multinational myths are beginning to fall
D
The poor don't want aid, they want control
D
And if we really want to see the Third World eat
D Db Bm
We've got to see through the wrapping on the high street
D
Past barriers of culture that dictate our lives
D Bm
We're busy consuming as the other half dies
D
And the answer's not a question on charity -
D
Not whilst profit's still the top priority -
D
So let the glossy shop-fronts know what to expect
D A
And you Bosses of Companies...
[Outro]
Em Cm
And the cycle of hungry children
Bm Em D C Bm Em D
Will keep on going round
Em C Bm Em
Until we burn the multinationals to the ground
Ebm Db D
