Overriding Volunteer

While bodies burn, the children learn
 How the money's earned, with growing concern
 In the gallery, three distinguished strangers
 Who had found there way home...
 Ricochet and muzzle flash
 Superfluous, luxurious,
 Commodities, communities
 Democracies, security
 They don't want your money
 Overriding volunteer
 They don't think you're funny at all.
 Overriding volunteer
 Lindesfarne and Banochburn
 Inadequacy, inaccuracies
 Heritage, more discoveries
 While the fishermen sail the seas
 Chemicals, minerals, culture and war,
 Is that all this place is good for
 Hundreds of years, unsettled scores
 Rivalry and bribery
 They don't want your money
 Overriding volunteer
 They don't think you're funny at all.
 Overriding volunteer
 Initiative on the killing floor
 Each man is there for the next man
 That's the horror and the terror of war
 And your overriding volunteer
 Inter-unit strife, think about your wife
 Another mission rehearsal, so you know the procedure.
 The rotor wash, N.C.O., incursion and extraction.
 Numbing the population, evacuees, contingency.
 They don't want your money
 Overriding volunteer
 They don't think you're funny at all.
 Overriding volunteer
 Movie reels on a photo slide
 In a mountainside where the warlords hide
 Send them to the sky
 Send them to the sea
 Spread them all over the land
 The slaves and the gold and the ivory
 The artist cry, as the good ones die
 Charities and the refugees
 The monetary man with a momentary plan
 They don't want your money
 Overriding volunteer
 They don't think you're funny at all.
 Overriding volunteer