Bruce Cockburn is a well known folk singer, his brother is a medical doctor who delivered my first son. I was amazed to learn that Bruce Cockburn sees the world as I do.



"They Call it Democracy" by Bruce Cockburn


Padded with power here they come
International loan sharks backed by the guns

Of market hungry military profiteers
Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared

With the blood of the poor
Who rob life of its quality
Who render rage a necessity

By turning countries into labour camps

Modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom

Sinister cynical instrument
Who makes the gun into a sacrament --

The only response to the deification
Of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'

Idolatry of ideology

North South East West
Kill the best and buy the rest

It's just spend a buck to make a buck
You don't really give a flying fuck
About the people in misery

IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

See the paid-off local bottom feeders
Passing themselves off as leaders

Kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows
Open for business like a cheap bordello

And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy

And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy

See the loaded eyes of the children too
Trying to make the best of it the way kids do
One day you're going to rise from your habitual feast
To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast

They call the revolution
IMF dirty MF

Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy