Testo Invasion - Chumbawamba
Testo della canzone Invasion (Chumbawamba), tratta dall'album Pictures of Starving Children
The first world's too greedy, we're consuming it all
The third world's got hunger and military control
This unequal balance is a master plan
One gets rich from the other's land
They've got it all worked out
They've got it all worked out
For these faraway slaves
They've got it all worked out for Central America
And they've got it all worked out for Africa
Deny their human true equal, they miss and over-consume
And keep them out and enslaved
Dying in the shadow of the USA
Let them feed bullshit, make the land pay
Make a fast deal with the local elites
Then send them to cash crops where once grew wheat
Build a cycle of dependence on a starvation diet
With food as a weapon, why can't they stay quiet?
And multinational names are put on their brands
The decadent interests in misused lands
D'Ormont, Take Lyle, Ralston Purina
Coca-Cola, RTZ and Unilever
All packaging lifestyles for the glamorous West
Expand the company, exploit the rest
We are not isolated by distance
But by greed and our racist history
Just a world's width away
Still impossible to reach across this space in front of me
It's we who write this history
We who guard the money tree
We support the companies
We stole the colonies
And when the system starts to crack
We'll have to be ready to give it all back
And when the system starts to crack
We'll have to be ready to give it all back
And when the system starts to crack
We'll have to be ready to give it all back
See the space that lies between the rich and the poor
How the space increases as we keep on taking more
We keep that space between us all
Empower the West and keep on tall
With a mission and a cheque book promising aid
Posing for the camera, the United Nations man came
He talked of control and the terrible drought
And the way that the West would bail them out
Then he stopped smiling in a tall condition
Of mutual aid and American wishes
Sending in aid was sold on strings
If they want right arms, we'll draw back in
Baiting the wild American style
Standards of an empire behind each smile
Back up the investments with a military regime
Their job, they say, is to keep the world clean
But the multinational myths are beginning to fall
The poor don't want aid, they want control
And if we really want to see the third world in
We've got to see through the wrapping of the high street
Past the barriers of culture that dictate our lives
With business consuming as the other half dies
And the answer to our question of charity
No, while profits fill the top priorities
So let the glassy shopfronts know what to expect
And you bastards all stock their needs
And as I grow up I read children
We'll keep on going on
We'll keep on going on
We'll keep on going on
Till we burn the multinationals to the ground
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Writer(s): Allan Whalley, Louise Watts, Darren Hamer, Nigel Hunter, Duncan Bruce, Alice Nutter, David Mills
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