As the Charity Department at the Treasury
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Dispenses licenses so you can do one too
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The Ethiopians are running out of weaponry
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So their leaders stock it up instead of food
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And charity begins at home
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So get out on the streets
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And help the refugees
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And the manager of E.M.I. technology
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Seems reluctant to discuss his business deals
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Cos the weapon sales are paying for his meals
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He'll go to withering heights
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To keep it out of sight
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Profit! Weaponry doesn't feed refugees
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It's a hit! McCartney's saying please on T.V.'s royalties to feed the world with guns
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Wembley Stadium forever on the video
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And a million spent to raise that sixty more
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Nothing ever quite as big as this before
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And it broke our hearts
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As it topped the charts
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But when the overkill exploited the reality
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We forgot the facts and revelled in the noise
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We didn't see that while we had the voice
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Companies and laws were pulling vocal chords
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If the western world was less obsessed with property
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And the need to keep it safe with threats of war
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Then the third world wouldn't need a war economy
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That we're supplying at a cost they can't afford
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So we buy up all their crops and grain
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And sell it back again
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When there ain't no rain
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And have a big campaign
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Using famous names
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And as the penny drops
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Into the Oxfam box
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Take off the V.A.T.
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Then call it charity
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And the public think the government is wonderful
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For promoting our assistance to the poor
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But their profits are a whole lot more
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They create the need to feed the refugees
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And delegate the guilty feeling to the public eye
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Via pictures of starvation on T.V.
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And get the public conscience back out on the streets
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With the empty tins
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And little flags on pins
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Lets call it charity
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Lets call it charity
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Make it pay!
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Charity
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| Citizen Fish |
