Charity - Citizen Fish

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As the Charity Department at the Treasury dispenses licenses so you can do one too, the Ethiopians are running out of weaponry, so their leaders stock it up instead of food. And charity begins at home, so get out on the streets and help the refugees. And the manager of EMI Technology seems reluctant to discuss his business deals, because the weapon sales are paying for his meals. He'll go to wuthering heights to keep it out of sight. Profit! Weaponry doesn't fee refugees. It's a hit! McCartney's saying please on TV's royalties to feed the world with guns. Wembley Stadium forever on the video, and a million spent the raise that sixty more. Nothing ever quite as big as this before and it broke our hearts as it topped the charts. But when the overkill exploited the reality, we forgot the facts and reveled in the noise. We didn't see that while we had the voice companies and laws were pulling vocals chords. If the Western World was less obsessed with property and the need to keep it safe with threats of war, then the Third Worlds wouldn't need a War Economy that we're supplying at a cost they can't afford. So we buy up all their crops and grain and sell it back again when there ain't no rain. Have a big campaign, using famous names. And as the Penny drops into the oxfambox, take off the V.A.T. then call it "charity." And the public thinks the government is wonderful for promoting our assistance to the poor, but their profits are a whole lot more. They create the need to feed the refugees and then delegate the guilty feeling to the public eye via pictures of starvation on TV. Let's get the public conscience back out on the streets with the empty tins and little flags on pins. Then call it "charity." Let's call it "charity." Ha, make it pay!     ...   Všechny texty od: Citizen Fish