Overseas

Overseas they say the latest enterprise is doing well
 We spread the opportunity to those who had no dreams to sell
 Protected by our forces their resources almost cover costs
 Our leading brand of helping hand
 Will turn a profit from a loss
 Here's the global gift we made
 From all you gave us yesterday
 In blood and sweat it's history's updated trade in misery
 Here's our god of fizzy drink
 Our popstars and our I.M.F.
 Here's the cash to pay for us
 To bleed you til there's nothing left
 Overseas it's where the money flows
 We watch the profits grow
 That's all we need to know
 Overseas it's where the money flows
 We watch the profits grow
 That's all we need to know
 Overseas they say the water flows in every person's home
 And people eat so much they think of us
 As merely skin and bone
 Mesmerized not by the sky
 But daily tales of war and crime
 They classify the poor as those
 Who can't afford the latest clothes
 No pictures here to tap imagination's sympathetic side
 The skeletal remains of cultures branded and dehumanized
 So take this bleeding whine to drink
 Your lack of health from plastic cups
 As thirst and hunger search for
 Dreamless sleep before the sun comes up
 Overseas it's where the water flows
 In every person's home
 I guess we'll never know
 Overseas it's where the water flows
 In every person's home
 I guess we'll never know