THEY CALL IT DEMOCRACY (BRUCE COCKBURN)D Em G Padded with power here they come international loan sharks backed by the guns D Em G Of market hungry military profiteers whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared D Em G With the blood of the poor D Em G Who rob life of its quality who render rage a necessity D By turning countries into labour camps Em G D Em G modern slavers in drag as chaaaaaam__pions of freedom D Em G Sinister cynical instrument who makes the gun into a sacrament D Em G The only response to the deification of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations' D Em G Idolatry of ideology D Em G North south east west Kill the best and buy the rest D Em G It's just spend a buck to make a buck you don't really give a flying fuck D Em G About the people in misery A IMF dirty MF A Takes away everything it can get A Always making certain that there's one thing left A D Em G D Em G Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt D Em G I see the paid-off local bottom feeders passing themselves off as leaders D Kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows Em G And it's open for business like a cheap bordello D Em G And they call it democracy, and they call it democracy D Em G And they call it democracy, and they call it democracy D Em G You see the loaded eyes of the children too trying to make the best of it the way kids do D One day you're going to rise from your habitual feast Em G To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast D Em G They call the revolution CHORUS D Em G D Em G And they call it democracy, and they call it democracy D Em G D Em G And they call it democracy, and they call it democracy