Let's do it all by proxy

So we never have to take the hit

We can help them fight each other

So the masters of the world can take control of it

Let's do it all incognito

Never put our names to what we do

Let's do it all by numbers

It worked before and it will again

Let's keep this thing on budget

Gonna need a bonus at the end

Let's keep this thing well on schedule

So when their time has come ours can begin

And we can sit back and taste the spoils of wars

That we never even fought in - by proxy

And we can keep it all clean

Plastic Free and Charity Backed

International Quango Approved

Easy to set up if you've got the knack

Make UNICEF a visible partner

Which will come in useful when the Freedom Fries are down

And the kids can sit back and meet the dogs of war

That we sent to bomb their town

And we did it all by proxy

We think that everything is on the level

We think that household names deserve our trust

And they think that as long as they stick to the printed agreement

We're over their barrel in our consumer lust

So we try to be what we were wanting to be

(Although we'll never see it)

But we see only what they want us to see

(The price is never free)

We think that our country is the honest injun

We think that shithole places don't have the right

To even gather the coffee dregs from our conference tables

Where we flex our muscles in our wrongly gained right

We're so big that we often trample a fly

(Although we'll never see it)

And the fly needs ten million people to die

(The price is never free)

There's been a change in how we see the world (I'm not immune)

Somehow we all became analysts while dancing to the same old tune

All of that time seems wasted, all of it seems wrong

Lost in world of correspondence where the bold and italics have gone

And there will be no comeback for the things of which you're accused

You do it all by proxy and the truth is just Fake News

You never gave your minions cause to believe a word you say

But with a sock puppet by proxy they'll believe you anyway

Let's do it all by proxy

So we never have to take the hit

We can help them fight each other

So the masters of the world can take control of it

So when your nemesis gets a new missile

It's pretty certain that they got the plans from you

And you can sit back and watch the cash roll in

From the lease on Trident ii

You do it all By Proxy