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THE APOPALYPTICS lyrics : "Money on an Island"

You can keep your money on an island
You can keep your money safe from prying eyes
You can keep your money on an island

You can keep your money out of sight
Bet your money on it!


Tax havens, let me name some:
Jersey, and the Caymans
And in general British islands,

And on Europe's mainland,
Luxembourg and some Swiss cantons,
Crooks just love the City of London,

Hush hush, mum's the word
Like it were full of masons or


Delaware in the USA, man,
Running money from Venezuela,
Sometimes these places paid more,

Than their working neighbours
They use their populations
As their labour

They use their infrastructures
And their education


But services? Nah, they don't pay for them,
So you can see the state they're in
An honest boss pays a heavy burden but

Not for these corporations,
These float-from-place-to-place-men,
With their government mates, then

Who dream of when one day they
Can join them in tax havens!


You can keep your money on an island
You can keep your money safe from prying eyes
You can keep your money on an island

You can keep your money out of sight
Bet your money on it!


Tax avoiders, let me blame some
Petrol, trendy net search engines,
News moguls, big bank conmen

Phone providers swap them
Tax write-off for boys' club - trap dumb
Animals with lap-dance and some

Champagne on a yacht attracts them
So-called politicians


Big pop stars (while artists starve)
Buy boats to go rave in
Show Hello, their kitsch locations,

Half-Batcave, half-gymnasium
Hypocrite: debt victims pay them
Compensation

Drug dealers sent to heaven
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Some people take cash just to survive

Or just to keep a small business alive or
To get gifts for their loved ones
Ah, but this is different!

We're not talking about fiddling a form nor
Taking sixty quid's benefit fraud, no
We're talking about stealing six billion

From sick children!

And let's not mention,

Large countries' tax exemptions,
Banks who ask no questions
Dictators come to them from

Crass corruption to Paris or London,
No great investment,
They live but they don't pay rent

And it ain't sent back home

When business fails, who pays for it?

That's right, the taxpayers!
When business booms, who benefits?
That's right, they just take it!
What without even paying,
A small percentage, a small donation?

For all the help we gave them?
Nope, that's tax havens!

You can keep your money on an island
You can keep your money safe from prying eyes

You can keep your money on an island
You can keep your money out of sight
Bet your money on it!

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