You spend your time on a telephone line Selling nothing, going out of your mind For little money and little thanks Just to please some western banks
But we don’t want their imperial power We want their Coca-Cola and their cars We don’t want their imperial power We want their TV and their movie-stars
If they want to believe That we're just being naive They can close their eyes, close their eyes
Over the hills and far away A master speaks and we obey We're just two three-letter kingdoms That he's buying and selling today We're just two dots on the dice he's rolling In the twisted game he'll play We're just two shrivelled souls spinning out of control They won't let us love and they won't let us leave
We’re so sick to the heart that we can’t take part So we'll throw our bodies onto the gears and the levers Of this treacherous machine that chews up the believers Until this machine can swallow us no more
If they want to believe That we're just being naive They can close their eyes We’re gonna close their eyes