Proxy

Let's do it all by proxy So we never have to take the hit We can help them fight each other So the masters of the world can take control of it Let's do it all incognito Never put our names to what we do Let's do it all by numbers It worked before and it will again Let's keep this thing on budget Gonna need a bonus at the end Let's keep this thing well on schedule So when their time has come ours can begin And we can sit back and taste the spoils of wars That we never even fought in By proxy And we can keep it all clean Plastic free and charity backed International Quango approved Easy to set up if you've got the knack Make UNICEF a visible partner Which will come in useful when the Freedom Fries are down And the kids can sit back and meet the dogs of war That we sent to bomb their town And we did it all by proxy By proxy By proxy We think that everything is on the level We think that household names deserve our trust And they think that as long as they stick to the printed agreement We're over their barrel in our consumer lust So we try to be what we were wanting to be (Although we'll never see it) But we see only what they want us to see (The price is never free) We think that our country is the honest injun We think that shithole places don't have the right To even gather the coffee dregs from our conference tables Where we flex our muscles in our wrongly gained right We're so big that we often trample a fly (Although we'll never see it) And the fly needs ten million people to die (The price is never free) There's been a change in how we see the world I'm not immune (prime time catastrophe) Somehow we all became analysts while dancing to the same old tune All of that time seems wasted, all of it seems wrong Lost in world of correspondence where the bold and italics have gone And there will be no comeback for the things of which you're accused You do it all by proxy and the truth is just Fake News You never gave your minions cause to believe a word you say But with a sock puppet by proxy, they'll believe you anyway They'll believe you anyway Let's do it all by proxy So we never have to take the hit We can help them fight each other So the masters of the world can take control of it So when your nemesis gets a new missile It's pretty certain that they got the plans from you And you can sit back and watch the cash roll in From the lease on Trident II By proxy By proxy