[Verse One]
We are your salvation, come to bleed you dry
Enforce democracy, spit you out the other side
It's not what you asked for but it's what you'll get
Full of eastern promise, put your culture under threat
[Pre-Chorus]
Austerity to save us, peacetime wavers
Wobbling, toppling, falling into danger
Hysterical Americans, phased by Asians
Middle east street party invitations
[Chorus]
The puppet masters taking over
The puppet masters, the puppet masters
The puppet masters taking over
Filling the dead sea with Coca-Cola
The puppet masters taking over
Filling the dead sea with Coca-Cola
[Post-Chorus]
We lost the gumption and found corruption
Based on substantial financial assumption
It's messy, it's Lionel, finality is final
The hispanics panic, France got an eyeful
[Bridge]
Fighting back biting, wrongs that need righting
Creating martyrs that are willing to do killing
It's so demanding, no understanding
Nothing you can do will stop the empire from expanding
[Pre-Chorus]
Austerity to save us, peacetime wavers
Wobbling, toppling, falling into danger
Hysterical Americans, phased by Asians
Middle east street party invitations
We lost the gumption and found corruption
Based on substantial financial assumption
It's messy, it's Lionel, finality is final
The hispanics panic, France got an eyeful
[Chorus]
The puppet masters taking over
The puppet masters taking over
The puppet masters taking over
Filling the dead sea with Coca-Cola
The puppet masters taking over
Filling the dead sea with Coca-Cola
[Outro]
As the UK decays, Ireland is sinking
Europe, you're down and out, caught you blinking
Syria, we're hearing you, failure Australia
Italy all piggeldy and Greece-proof paper
Countdown to meltdown, coming to your town
Dirty tricks and politics are getting down down
We lost the gumption and found corruption
Please, an interruption
I'll be abrupt, we're fucked