More Whitewashing Lyrics - Chumbawamba

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