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