Welcome to Capitalism - Mud Sun

It’s so lovely

So smooth

So step inside champagne

Flow-ow-ow

Strawberry wine

Your VIP champagne

Well that was Baba’s piece

And this is mine

Designed to show a little of what makes up his mind

All right?

So

It sounds like this

Welcome to capitalism

Yeah, it’s yours

Step inside kids

Everything here is designed for your comfort

And you’re all invited

White, rich, wealthy, European-looking, Western

Whether you excel at industry

Or you’re swell at investment

Come on, there’s space for all

Absolutely yes, you too, and you and you

No matter your attitude

Ave Caesar!

Yes, absolutely

Great, super, mega, brilliant

Gillian, shut the gate

What?

Don’t mind them

Did they say something?

Probably local thugs

Our doorman will stop them coming in

Don’t worry

Move away from the door

Are you quite comfortable?

We’ll see your every need is catered for

You have thirty seconds to comply!

Canape?

Cognac?

Twenty seconds!

Move back!

Now, Neil tells me you’re thinking Nigeria next

Good plan

I know how tedious Bolivia gets

The whole water saga

It’s impossible to relax isn’t it?

When the lumpy proletariat attacks business

It’s enough to make one reach for the bubbly

Ten seconds!

But honestly

I wouldn’t let it trouble me

Eight seconds!

Would you care for seconds?

Seven seconds!

Cognac?

Canape?

You have to see things in a balanced way

Five seconds!

Have a cocktail

Four seconds!

What can you do?

Three!

Have a shampoo

Two!

Have a hat

Have a gun

One!

Get on the floor!

No, not you

Get on the floor!

Get on the floor!

Honestly

Bloody militants

Gillian, kill him

Honestly, really

These activists, all doom and gloom

Very sorry about that, you okay?

Let’s move to the next room

Ah!

There’s Baba Brinkman

He’s our rapper

Big on money and markets

A lovely crafted mouthpiece

For the governing classes

Really

He’s bloody marvelous

The director was so impressed

Between you and me

He funded his masters

He’s rocked libraries from London to Harvard

Most extrordinary

Brinkman, here’s a bloke you ought to meet

His name is Mann, or Thatcher or something similar

He does fantastic work with energy in Nigeria

A great friend of the Prime Minister

Brinkman’s mother’s an MP

He’s really the cleverest MC you’ll ever meet

He’s a little left of center

But nothing to be alarmed with

He’s read 'The Rebel Sell'

So he’s perfectly harmless

You two will get alond fine

Help yourself to snacks

I’ve got to take a call

Small matter of tax

Back in a sec lads

And there’s why you think the system works so well, bro

It’s given you swell clothes and a great deal on your cell phone

Free water, shiny white teeth and healthy bones

Of course your defense of the fortress is well-honed

Well if you’re really down for doing something positive

Why don’t you juggle south over the border

Where the world’s majority live

Wave your wealth at them

And ask them what’s wrong with it

Might just make a little shift in consciousness

Or maybe it might just show you what the problem is

Wherever there’s capitalism, there’s injustice

In all its monstrousness

It follows like a plague

Irrespective of your politics

Cause it’s the only way the people at the top

Have ever profited