Christ the Redeemer towering high over Rio   Rio de Janeiro, Rio   Where they held a summit to save the world   And to mark the time when develpment   As traditionally understood-had failed      And the affluent North raping the South   Investment from the North means   Economic bondage for the South   Under the burden of debt payments      I was with a whore in Copenhagen   Drinking eight hundred dollars worth of    Champagne in kroner   She came from Rio   We were trying to save the world   We did not get what we wanted   She wanted money   She did not get what she wanted   I missed my wife   I did not get what I wanted   Death sat on my lap   Death sits on all our laps      While Christ the Redeemer   Towers high over Rio   Rio de Janeiro, Rio