D                                   C            Bm
The first world's got greedy, we're consuming it all
D                                         Bm
The third world's got hunger and military control
Bm
This unequal balance is a master plan
D                      C       Bm
One gets rich from the other's land
D C Bm D
Bm             D          C
They've got it all worked out
C               D         C Bm
and we give our consent

[Verse]
D                                 C       Bm
They've got it all worked out for Central America
D                                 Bm
They've got it all worked out for Africa
D
And in our naivety we believe myths and overconsume
D
And give them our consent
D
Dying in the shadow of the USA
D
"Let them eat bullshit, make the land pay"
D                         C
Make a fast deal with the local elite
D
Then substitute cash-crops where once grew wheat
A                                 C
Build a cycle of dependence on a starvation-diet
D                      E
With food as a weapon, workers stay quiet

[Verse]
A                            G
And multinational names have blood on their brands
A                          G
From taking an interest in misused lands
D                       G
Del Monte, Tate & Lyle, Ralston Purina
D
Coca-Cola, RTZ, and Unilever
D
All packaging lifestyles for the glamorous west
D
Expand the company, exploit the rest

[Instrumental]
G A D G A D
G A D G A D
G A D G A D

[Verse]
D                       G
We are not isolated by distance
A      D             A           G
But by greed and our racist history
A      D             A
Just a wall's width away
G                   A
Still impossible to see across
D             A        G
This space in front on me

[Bridge]
A    D            A
It's we who write this history
G                A
We who guard the money-tree
D             A
We support the companies
G            A
We stole the colonies
D G A D A G

[Refrain]
D                              A
And when the system starts to crack
G                      A
We'll have to ready to give it all back
D                              A
And when the system starts to crack
G                      A
We'll have to ready to give it all back
D                              A
And when the system starts to crack
G                      A
We'll have to ready to give it all back

D Db C Bm

[Bridge]
D       Dbm                          C            Bm
See the space which lies between the rich and the poor
D       Dbm                   C              Bm
How the space increases as we keep on taking more
D       Db            C       Bm
Keeping that space between us all
D  Db               C    Bm
Is how the west can keep control...

[Instrumental]
D Db C Bm
D Db C Bm

[Verse]
D                               Db
With a mission and a chequebook promising aid
C                                Bm
Posing for the camera the United Nations man came
D                            Db
He talked of control and the terrible drought
C                               Bm
And the way that the west would bail them out
D                                   C
They he stopped smiling and talked conditions
D C
Of mutual aid; of American wishes
D
Sending in aid with sewn-on strings
D
If they won't buy arms - then it's pulled back in
D                  G
Feeding the world American style
A                                    C
Col Sanders has an empire behind his smile
A                              D
Back up the investments with a military regime
A                   C
Then cleverly say: "It's to keep the world free!"

[Instrumental]
D Db C Bm
D Db C Bm

[Verse]
D
But the multinational myths are beginning to fall
D
The poor don't want aid, they want control
D
And if we really want to see the Third World eat
D                            Db                   Bm
We've got to see through the wrapping on the high street
D
Past barriers of culture that dictate our lives
D                                       Bm
We're busy consuming as the other half dies
D
And the answer's not a question on charity -
D
Not whilst profit's still the top priority -
D
So let the glossy shop-fronts know what to expect
D                  A
And you Bosses of Companies...

[Outro]
Em                      Cm
And the cycle of hungry children
Bm                 Em     D C Bm Em D
Will keep on going round
Em                C      Bm             Em
Until we burn the multinationals to the ground
Ebm Db D