I get the globalisation blues
When I read the globalisation news
Don’t know which globalisation to choose
So many globalisation shoes
In Europe they follow the laws that they got from their ma’s and their pa’s
The Yankees left home to be free, so Marines could be all they could be
In Islam they follow the mulla’s, and other fine Mecca-nized fellows
The Russians are looking for leaders with a new set of old parking meters
I get the globalisation blues
When I read the globalisation news
Don’t know which globalisation to choose
So many globalisation shoes
In China the walls are forbidding and you can’t tell if they’re only kidding
Please don’t cry again Argentina, if the south of the border gets meaner
In Cape Town the races are on but you can’t tell who’s lost and who’s won
In Belfast they’re tossing their pints, at churches that burn through the night
The numbers keep crunching Bombay in every conceivable way
The problems that plague Indonesia are the kind that will always displease you
In Brussels they’re building their bureaus and looking for clerical heroes
In Strasbourg, The Hague and Geneva, they don’t want your senses to leave you
I get the globalisation blues
When I read the globalisation news
Don’t know which globalisation to choose
So many globalisation shoes
Each time that you watch MTV you discover a new way to be
A digital life on the run is a mobilized way to have fun
We are faced with a web of intrigue that’s taken us to a new league
The data we get is astounding as our senses keep taking a pounding
Just ask any man on the street what he’s wearing on both of his feet
Will it take him through rain and through snow and get him where he wants to go?
From Boston to Baghdad they walk, and talk like they’ve learned how to talk
If the twain are intended to meet, it comes down to the shoes on their feet
I get the globalisation blues
When I read the globalisation news
Don’t know which globalisation to choose
So many globalisation shoes
I’ve got the globalisation blues
I’m taking globalisation views
Collecting globalisation clues
To beat these globalisation blues
I’m paying globalisation dues
For all these globalisation blues
Can’t shake these globalisation blues
Can’ t break these globalisation blues
Exchanging globalisation shoes