Chumbawamba Lyrics

*  More Whitewashing

Children in school forced to the desk 
Finger the atlas and study the text 
Lies and opinion presented as fact 
Taught to accept, and never to ask 

Those smiling workers in Ladybird books 
They're not picking coffee at all 
They're busy with bricks and mortar 
Building the company wall 

Flickering pictures hypnotize 
We spend our lives watching others' lives 
Too much watching to realize 
That this is a smokescreen 
And this is why people die 

Those smiling news presenters 
They're not reading cue-cards at all 
They're busy with brush and bucket 
Whitewashing the company wall 

Set yourself up and play it again 
Force the tears and entertain 
Sing about a world of make-believe 
Force this charity and leave 

Rich people who claim to know 
What's wrong with this world 
Can't know anything at all 
They're busy giving the orders 
For us to build their second homes 

Flickering pictures hypnotize 
Flickering pictures hypnotize 

And we who take the orders 
And refuse to question it all 
We're busy with spade and Bible 
Burying the poor 
Burying the poor 

Mass-manufactured and given away 
Blinkers to get you through your day 
So you'll never ever know to what extent you're involved 
Easily fooled, all your problems solved 
You'll say starvation has nothing to do with you 
You saw it in print, so it must be true 
And the documentary explained it all 
It's a simple matter of birth control 

And if you send a little money you can sleep tonight 
Or starve in sympathy on a Limmits Diet 
And you know that charity cures malnutrition 
And hunger put the sparkle back in television 
Hunger put the sparkle back in television 
Hunger put the sparkle back in television

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