As the Charity Department at the Treasury    Dispenses licenses so you can do one too    The etheopians are running out of weaponry    So their leaders stock it up instead of food    And charity begins at home    So get out on the streets    And help the refugees       And the manager of E.M.I. technology    Seems reluctant to discuss his business deals    Cos the weapon sales are paying for his meals    He'll go to withering heights    To keep it out of sight       Profit! Weaponry doesn't feed refugees    It's a hit! McCartney's saying please on T.V.'s royalties to feed the world with guns       Wembley Stadium forever on the video    And a million spent to raise that sixty more    Nothing ever quite as big as this before    And it broke our hearts    As it topped the charts       But when the overkill exploited the reality    We forgot the facts and revelled in the noise    We didn't see that while we had the voice    Companies and laws were pulling vocal chords       If the western world was less obsessed with proprety    And the need to keep it safe with threats of war    Then the third world wouldn't need a war economy    That we're supplying at a cost they can't afford    So we buy up all their crops and grain    And sell it back again    When there ain't no rain    And have a big campaign    Using famous names    And as the penny drops    Into the Oxfam box    Take off the V.A.T.    Then call it charity       And the public think the government is wonderful    For promoting our assistance to the poor    But their profits are a whole lot more    They create the need to feed the refugees    And delegate the guilty feeling to the public eye    Via pictures of starvation on T.V.    And get the public conscience back out on the streets    With the empty tins    And little flags on pins    Lets call it charity    Lets call it charity    Make it pay!