(After watching this video I was inspired to write my own song.)
WHO PAYS THE PRICE
As you and I sit idly by
And watch America
Eating from the trough,
As you and I sit idly by
And watch America
Drinking her indifference,
As you and I sit idly by
And watch America,
A pill of greed upon her tongue,
While children starve outside our homes
And others drown inside their own
While people of the world are bombed,
Will we close our eyes
And swallow the pill
When we're told "we don't belong"?
Who then pays the cost
Who pays the cost
For America’s freedom land?
Who then pays the cost
Of our eating from the trough
While all the bombs
Are falling from our hands?
Who pays the cost for apathy?
Who pays the heavy price?
Who pays when we close our eyes
And we're told to "just make nice"?
Who pays the cost for that?
Who pays the price
When our planes have bombed their last?
Who pays the heavy cost
When we buy a tank of gas?
Who pays a price as we devour
While so much more is lost?
As you and I sit idly by
And watch America
Eating from the trough,
While children starve outside our homes
And others drown inside their own,
While people of the world are bombed
Will we close our eyes and swallow the pill
When we’re told to "move along"?
Will we close our eyes and swallow the pill
When we’re told to "move along"?
Will we close our eyes and swallow the pill
When we’re told to "move along"?
© 2007 mrp/thepoetryman
Thanks to Elowehi25 for the video
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