More Whitewashing 创作者：
Chumbawamba
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调：G major

Intro 1

Verse 1
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Children in school
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forced to the desk
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Finger the atlas and study the text
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Lies and opinion presented
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as fact
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Taught to accept,
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and never to ask

Verse 2

Those smiling workers in Ladybird books

They're not picking coffee at all

They're busy with bricks and mortar

Building the company wall

Verse 3
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Flickering pictures hypnotize
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We spend our lives watching
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others' lives
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Too much watching to realize
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That this is a  smokescreen
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And this is why people die

Verse 4
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Those smiling news presenters
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They're not reading cue-
cards at all
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They're busy with brush
and bucket
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Whitewashing the company wall

Verse 5
D D 
 
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Set yourself up and play it again
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Force the tears and entertain
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Sing about a world of make-
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be lieve
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Force this charity and  leave

Verse 6
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Rich people who claim to know
What's wrong with this world
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Can't know anything at all
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They're busy giving the orders
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For us to build their second homes

Verse 7

Flickering pictures hypnotize

Interlude 1

Flickering pictures hypnotize

And

Verse 8
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we who take the orders
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And refuse to question it all
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We're busy with spade and Bible
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Burying the poor
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Burying the poor

Interlude 2

Verse 9
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Mass- manufactured and given away
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Blinkers to get you through your day
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So  you'll never ever know to what
extent you're involved
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Am Am 
 
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Easily fooled,
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all your problems solved
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You'll say starvation has
nothing to do with you
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You saw it in print, so it must be true
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Em Em 
 
And the documentary explained it all
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It's a simple matter of
birth control
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Verse 10
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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
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Em Em 
 
back in television
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Am Am 
 
Hunger put the sparkle
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back in television
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Hunger put the sparkle back in television