Overriding Volunteer Lyrics - Finley Quaye

While bodies burn, the children learn 

How the money's earned, with growing concern 

In the gallery, three distinguished strangers 

Who had found their 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 

(Overriding volunteer) 

At all, at all, at all, 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 

(Overriding volunteer) 

At all, at all, at all, 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, say 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 

(Overriding volunteer) 

At all, at all, at all, 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 seas 

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 

There's monetary man with a momentary plan 

They don't want your money 

(Overriding volunteer) 

They don't think you're funny 

(Overriding volunteer) 

At all, at all, at all, at all 

(Overriding volunteer) 

They don't want your money 

(Overriding volunteer) 

They don't think you're funny 

(Overriding volunteer) 

At all, at all, at all, at all 

(Overriding volunteer)