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