Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Overriding Volunteer, artist - Finley Quaye.
Date of issue: 13.10.2003
Song language: English
Overriding Volunteer |
While bodies burn, the children learn |
How the money’s earned, with growing concern |
In the gallery, three distinguished strangers |
Who had found there 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 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 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, so 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 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 sea |
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 |
The monetary man with a momentary plan |
They don’t want your money |
Overriding volunteer |
They don’t think you’re funny at all |
Overriding volunteer |