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Chumbawamba
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Children in school forced to the desk
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Finger the atlas and study the text
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Lies and opinion presented as fact
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Taught to accept and never to ask
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Those smiling workers in Ladybird books
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They're not picking coffee at all
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They're busy with bricks and mortar
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Building the company wall
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Flickering pictures hypnotize
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We spend our lives watching others' lives
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Too much watching to realize
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That this is a smokescreen
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And this is why people die
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Those smiling news presenters
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They're not reading cue cards at all
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They're busy with brush and bucket
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Whitewashing the company wall
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Set yourself up and play it again
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Force the tears and entertain
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Sing about a world of make believe
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Force this charity and leave
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Rich people who claim to know
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What's wrong with this world
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Can't know anything at all
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They're busy giving the orders
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For us to build their second homes
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Flickering pictures hypnotize
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Flickering pictures hypnotize
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And we who take the orders
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And refuse to question it all
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We're busy with spade and Bible
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Burying the poor, burying the poor
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Mass manufactured and given away
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Blinkers to get you through your day
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So you'll never ever know to what extent you're involved
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Easily fooled, all your problems solved
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You'll say starvation has nothing to do with you
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You saw it in print, so it must be true
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And the documentary explained it all
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It's a simple matter of birth control
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And if you send a little money, you can sleep tonight
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Or starve in sympathy on a Limmits Diet
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And you know that charity cures malnutrition
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And hunger put the sparkle back in television
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Hunger put the sparkle back in television
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Hunger put the sparkle back in television
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
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