Sing The Word Hope In Four-part Harmony

We are young, confident, affluent, and with no memory of 
tougher times
We've grown up in an era of never ending financial growth
And expected things to stay that way
We've grown up in owner-occupied homes
With total acceptance of technology, global warming and 
terrorism
Our whole society has been based on consumerism for the 
past fifteen years
Making us dream consumers, yet we don't know the difference
 between a credit card
And a debit card, and we have no idea how much a pint of 
milk costs
On average we have eight hundred illegally downloaded 
songs, and one in eight of us
Spends more than one hundred pounds a month on our mobile 
phone bill
We've never read a newspaper, and we've never used our 
chance to vote
We allow our governments to make decisions without giving 
us all the facts
They send troops abroad who will die
In order that we can steal resources from the people who 
have them
People who meant us little or no harm until we invaded 
their country
We allow those troops to commit horrendous atrocities
And yet our leaders hang our alleged enemies for much less
We've spent years entrusting our futures to our parents, 
our governments
The banks and the corporations who have continually lobbied
 for their own interests
And we've let them make selfish decisions
That have left our society teetering on the edge of ruin
We're blinded from the information that would really shock 
us

By stories of sex and sleaze which doesn't make the 
smallest difference to our lives
And so we have no desire to do anything about the things 
that really do
We've watched as greed wipes billions of the world's stock 
markets
Destroys jobs and lives
And proves that capitalism is just as corruptible by human 
nature as communism
These are tough times but we seek solace in our friends and
 co-conspirators
We make small differences in each other's lives, and dream 
that we can make real progress