There goes one baby's life
Six thousand children's lives were simply thrown away
Lost without medicine inside of thirty days
In the New York harbor where the stocks withheld
It was the price we paid for a safer world
Where they're building dams
They're displacing native peoples from their homes and lands
So they hunger strike 'cause they believe they count
In the name of progress and democracy
The concepts represented in name only
And the buildings fall in a cloud of dust
"How could they hate us?"
Well, when we're living in ignorance and luxury
While our superpowers practice puppet mastery
We raise the men who run the fascist states
And we sell them arms so they maintain their place
We turn our backs on the things they've done
Their human rights record and the guns they run
Who'll do away with flags?
Remove the money from their pockets, scream dissent out loud?
'Cause god ain't on our side, the shoe won't fit
And though they think the war is won, that's not the last of it
Disenfranchised people need their voices heard
And if no one stops to listen
Lose their faith in words
And violence rises when all hope is lost
Who'll embrace the human spirit and absolve the cost?