The first world's got greedy, we're consuming it all 第一世界变得贪婪，我们就吃下这一切

The third world's got hunger and military control 第三个世界有饥饿和军事控制

This unequal balance is a master plan 这种不平等的平衡是一个总体规划

One gets rich from the other's land 一个发财的其他土地

   

They've got it all worked out and we give our consent 他们已经得到解决了问题，我们给我们的同意，

   

They've got it all worked out for Central America 他们已经得到了这一切，制定了中美洲

They've got it all worked out for Africa 他们已经得到了这一切，制定了非洲

And in our naivety we believe myths and over consume 而在我们的天真，我们相信神话和消费过

And give them our consent, dying in the shadow of the USA 并给他们我们的同意，死在美国的影子

Let them eat bullshit, make the land pay 让他们吃废话，使土地的薪酬

   

Make a fast deal with the local elite 做一个快速的处理与当地精英

Then substitute cash crops where once grew wheat 然后替代经济作物，其中一次小麦生长

Build a cycle of dependence on a starvation diet 构建依赖的周期在饥饿疗法

With food as a weapon, workers stay quiet 随着食品作为武器，人员保持安静

   

And multinational names have blood on their brands 和跨国公司的名字有血，自己的品牌

From taking an interest in misused lands 采取有兴趣误用土地

Del Monte, Tate and Lyle, Ralston Purina 德尔蒙特，泰特和莱尔，罗尔斯顿普瑞纳

Coca-Cola, RTZ and Unilever 可口可乐， RTZ和联合利华

All packaging lifestyles for the glamorous west 所有包装的生活方式的美艳西

Expand the company, exploit the rest 拓展公司，利用休息

   

We are not isolated by distance 我们不分离的距离

But by greed and our racist history 但贪婪和我们的种族主义历史

Just a wall's width away 只有一墙之隔的宽度远

Still impossible to see across 仍无法看到对面

This space in front on me 在前面给我这个空间

   

It's we who write this history 这是我们谁写这段历史

We who guard the money tree 我们谁守卫摇钱树

We support the companies 我们支持企业

We stole the colonies 我们偷了殖民地

   

And when the system starts to crack 而当系统启动破解

We'll have to ready to give it all back 我们必须准备好把钱还回来

   

See the space which lies between the rich and the poor 看到贫富之间，为空间

How the space increases as we keep on taking more 如何为我们继续采取更多的空间增大

Keeping that space between us all 保持我们之间的一切空间

Is how the West can keep control 是西方如何保持控制

   

With a mission and a cheque book promising aid 的使命和支票簿看好援助

Posing for the camera, the United Nations man came 合照，联合国人来了

He talked of control and the terrible drought 他谈到控制和可怕的干旱

And the way that the West would bail them out 和路，西会帮助他们摆脱困境

   

They he stopped smiling and talked conditions 他们停下，他面带微笑，谈条件

Of mutual aid, of American wishes 互助美国的意愿，对

Sending in aid with sewn on strings 援助发送带有缝上串

If they won't buy arms, then it's pulled back in 如果他们不购买武器，那么它拉回

   

Feeding the world American style 养活世界美式风格

Col. Sanders has an empire behind his smile 桑德斯上校背后都有他的笑容帝国

Back up the investments with a military regime 备份与军事政权的投资

Then cleverly say, "It's to keep the world free" 于是巧妙地说， “这是保持世界自由”

   

But the multinational myths are beginning to fall 但多国的神话开始回落

The poor don't want aid, they want control 穷人不想要的援助，他们希望控制

And if we really want to see the Third World eat 如果我们真的想看到第三世界吃

We've got to see through the wrapping on the high street 我们必须看到，通过包装上的高街

   

Past barriers of culture that dictate our lives 文化是支配我们的生活过去的障碍

We're busy consuming as the other half dies 我们忙于消费的另一半去世

And the answer's not a question on charity 得到的答复不是施舍的问题

Not whilst profit's still the top priority 而没有利润的仍是重中之重

   

So let the glossy shop fronts know what to expect 因此，让光泽店面知道会发生什么

And you bosses of companies 而你的老板的公司

And the cycle of hungry children 与饥饿儿童的周期

Will keep on going round 将继续兜兜

Until we burn the multinationals to the ground 直到我们烧了跨国公司在地上