Sing The Word Hope In Four-part Harmony

We are young, confident, affluent, and with no memory of tougher times

We've grown up in an era of never ending financial growth

And expected things to stay that way

We've grown up in owner-occupied homes

With total acceptance of technology, global warming and terrorism

Our whole society has been based on consumerism for the past fifteen years

Making us dream consumers, yet we don't know the difference between a credit card

And a debit card, and we have no idea how much a pint of milk costs

On average we have eight hundred illegally downloaded songs, and one in eight of us

Spends more than one hundred pounds a month on our mobile phone bill

We've never read a newspaper, and we've never used our chance to vote

We allow our governments to make decisions without giving us all the facts

They send troops abroad who will die

In order that we can steal resources from the people who have them

People who meant us little or no harm until we invaded their country

We allow those troops to commit horrendous atrocities

And yet our leaders hang our alleged enemies for much less

We've spent years entrusting our futures to our parents, our governments

The banks and the corporations who have continually lobbied for their own interests

And we've let them make selfish decisions

That have left our society teetering on the edge of ruin

We're blinded from the information that would really shock us

By stories of sex and sleaze which doesn't make the smallest difference to our lives

And so we have no desire to do anything about the things that really do

We've watched as greed wipes billions of the world's stock markets

Destroys jobs and lives

And proves that capitalism is just as corruptible by human nature as communism

These are tough times but we seek solace in our friends and co-conspirators

We make small differences in each other's lives, and dream that we can make real progress