At Least I Can Afford Food In China Lyrics

Cross the Yangtze like Mao Zedong when he crawl

I'm at the Wuhan wet market like Shannon Noll

Respect Vladmir Lenin I know he tried hard

So I put my money in the account named Vanguard

My Everyday Rewards are here to stay

It's the Australian way to overpay

But it's worth it if I collect the points I guess

And get ten bucks off for every two grand spent

They jack up the price and they jack up my rent

I'll just blame the banks and the immigrants

Because money is nature and countries are wolves

Why would an economist lie, surely they ain't fools

When I'm living the dream I just get in the way

Content for my masters to lead me astray

Read the words in the paper every day

It's the fault of the East unless I'm there on holiday

With their funny languages and spicy food

I'm just asking questions don't mean to be rude

But can you see as wide as me with your slanted eyes

Hey, don't shoot the messenger I read about it online!

My Everyday Rewards are here to stay

It's the Australian Way to overpay

But it's worth it if I get approved for a loan

Thirty years chained to a husk of brittle stone

They jack up the price and they jack up the rent

I'll just blame the banks and the immigrants

Because money is nature and countries are wolves

Why would an economist lie, surely they ain't fools

You wonder and ruminate on why no one takes Australia seriously

But see nothing wrong with chicken nuggets costing more than a DVD of Crocodile Dundee

If Mad Max is the future count me in

At least then I'll get rewarded for original sin

'Cause Blade Runner's looking more and more likely each day

I didn't pay attention in LOTE so the desert better blow my way

My way or the highway

The great Princess Highway

They jack up the price and they jack up therent

I'll just blame the banks and the immigrants

Because money is nature and countries are wolves

Why would an economist lie, surely they ain't fools

When I'm living the dream I just get in the way

Content for my masters to lead me astray

Read the words in the paper every day

It's the fault of the East unless I'm there on holiday

好好学习天天向上

They told me to hate a place I only knew on a map

So I stumbled through back alleys with a dictionary app

Power cables twisting upward into the night sky

麻将 players with bellies full and eyes wide

Two hundred geriatrics dancing to C+C

Everybody dance now then time for dumplings and tea

Get home read the paper and it makes me sick

Cheaper to visit Chengdu than pay rent in Brunswick

Black clouds over Shenzhen by Western decree

We blame the Middle Kingdom for a carbon footprint we

Fitted the shoe for back in nineteen seventy three

Everything made in China but now we want them to leave

We blame them for the power we granted to thee

And now you believe anything on a TV Screen

But you can learn the language and see for yourself

Who am I kidding, you'd rather they hate us instead