Citizen Fish - Charity lyrics

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 E.M.I. technology Seems reluctant to discuss his business deals Cos the weapon sales are paying for his meals He'll go to withering heights To keep it out of sight Profit! Weaponry doesn't feed refugees It's a hit! McCartney's saying please on T.V.'s royalties to feed the world with guns Wembley Stadium forever on the video And a million spent to 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 overk** exploited the reality We forgot the facts and revelled in the noise We didn't see that while we had the voice Companies and laws were pulling vocal chords If the western world was less obsessed with property And the need to keep it safe with threats of war Then the third world 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 And have a big campaign Using famous names And as the penny drops Into the Oxfam box Take off the V.A.T. Then call it charity And the public think the government is wonderful For promoting our a**istance to the poor But their profits are a whole lot more They create the need to feed the refugees And delegate the guilty feeling to the public eye Via pictures of starvation on T.V. And get the public conscience back out on the streets With the empty tins And little flags on pins Lets call it charity Lets call it charity Make it pay!