Bruce Cockburn Call It A Democracy Lyrics

Call It A Democracy Lyrics

padded with power here they come
international loan sharks backed by the
guns
of market hungry military profiteers
whose word is a swamp and whose
brow is smeared
with the blood of the poor

who rob life of its
quality
who render rage a necessity
by turning countries into labour
camps
modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom

sinister cynical
instrument
who makes the gun into a sacrament --
the only response to the
deification
of tyranny by so-called "developed"
nations'
idolatry of ideology

north south east west
kill the best
and buy the rest
it's just spend a buck to make a buck
you don't really
give a flying fuck
about the people in misery

IMF dirty MF
takes
away everything it can get
always making certain that there's one thing
left
keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

see the paid-off
local bottom feeders
passing themselves off as leaders
kiss the ladies
shake hands with the fellows
open for business like a cheap
bordello

and they call it democracy
and they call it democracy
and
they call it democracy
and they call it democracy

see the loaded eyes
of the children too
trying to make the best of it the way kids do
one day
you're going to rise from your habitual feast
to find yourself staring down
the throat of the beast
they call the revolution

IMF dirty
MF
takes away everything it can get
always making certain that there's
one thing left
keep them on the hook with insupportable debt