D
Padded with power here they come
Em                        G
International loan sharks backed by the guns
   D
Of market hungry military profiteers
      Em                        G
Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
         D                   Em  G
With the blood of the poor

[Verse 2]
D
Who rob life of its quality
Em                G
Who render rage a necessity
D
By turning countries into labour camps
Em                G       D                     Em    G
Modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom

[Verse 3]
D
Sinister cynical instrument
Em                       G
Who makes the gun into a sacrament
D
The only response to the deification
Em                       G
Of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'
D                     Em   G
Idolatry of ideology

[Verse 4]
D
North south east west
Em                G
Kill the best and buy the rest
D
It's just spend a buck to make a buck
Em                      G
You don't really give a flying fuck
D                           Em   G
About the people in misery

[Chorus]
A
IMF dirty MF
A
Takes away everything it can get
A
Always making certain that there's one thing left
A                                             D  Em  G    D  Em  G
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

[Verse 5]
D
I see the paid-off local bottom feeders
Em                        G
Passing themselves off as leaders
D
Kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows
Em                                G
And it's open for business like a cheap bordello
D                               Em                     G
And they call it democracy, and they call it democracy
D                               Em                     G
And they call it democracy, and they call it democracy

[Verse 6]
D
You see the loaded eyes of the children too
Em                                G
Trying to make the best of it the way kids do
D
One day you're going to rise from your habitual feast
Em                                G
To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast
D                         Em   G
They call the revolution

[Chorus]
A
IMF dirty MF
A
Takes away everything it can get
A
Always making certain that there's one thing left
A                                             D  Em  G
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt.

D                               Em                     G
And they call it democracy, and they call it democracy
D                               Em                     G
And they call it democracy, and they call it democracy

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D    Em    G
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