The civilized world

We got your resources we got your land


We got your government by the hand

We got your lives by the throat

We are the democracies we all vote

We are thoroughly civilized

We are developed behind the eyes

We are technological gods

We are here to murder and rob



We are the civilized world

We democratized ourselves

We are the advanced economies

We lift ourselves up and keep you on your knees



We are good capitalists

But we do like the subsidies

We couldn’t mine without government help

We couldn’t do nothing by ourselves

We can’t be sued when the rivers are dead

We can’t be brought to book when nothing is left

We will force you off your land

We will pay no taxes to the man



We are the civilized world

We democratized ourselves



We will appoint politicians to the board

They are very handy when we’re abroad

It’s a war of the north upon the south

That about sums up what it’s all about

We are funded by your pension fund

Its little old ladies holding the gun

Burning the villages of the Colombian

And the Guatemalan



We are the civilized world

We democratized ourselves

We are the advanced economies

We lift ourselves up and keep you on your knees



We speak in neo-colonialese

Of development aid and investment opportunities

They paid off the debt about 5 times

But still it’s growing all the time

More money comes out than goes in

Its not charity that they’re needing

Just pay for what we take

Pay a good price and it’ll all be great



We are the civilized world

We democratized ourselves

We are the advanced economies

But the mind don’t know what the eye don’t see