Money for the Colonels

You have chemical recreations

But consider implications

From the dosh you give your dealer

For the drugs that ain't no healer

There's a middleman, gets a share

Then mules, they have to pay the fare

Customs Officer gets a cut

For keeping the beady eye shut

Accounts are kept in journal

All just money for the Colonels

See Afghanistan, way back when

Russia sent in uniformed men

Brothers needed money for guns

Offered opium so deal done

Sales of powder liberate land

And revolution flames it fanned

Junkie dies in concrete tower

Game's pawn to a superpower

Horse and bullets, deal nocturnal

All just money for the Colonels

South American power game

Presidents want someone to blame

More cash in coke than in coffee

Though in Mall ain't sold for toffee

Sip the brown from nice clean cups

Someone, somewhere rakes in bucks

So farmers have to grow the leaves

And city banker has to thieve

Danger when it's brought internal

All just money for the Colonels

Charlie the governments support

Mr. Biggs they ain't never caught

They've friends who in the shadows live

And tip-offs they can always give

While death squads the streets do roam

Union men shot in their home

Think about others oppression

Habits finance much aggression

This world-wide business infernal

Giving money for the Colonels.