Key: B
Introduction:
C#E B G#(2x)
C# E B F#
Have you been to the desert, have you walked with the dead?
C# E B G#
There's a hundred thousand children being killed for their bread
A E
And the figures don't lie they speak of human disease
B E B
But we do what we want and we think what we please
C# E B F#
Have you lived the experience, Have you witnessed the plague?
C# E B G#
People making babies sometimes just to escape
A E
In this land of competition the compassion is gone
B E B
Yet we ignore the needy and we keep pushing on
E B
Keep pushing on
C# A E B
This is just a punk rock song
C# A E G#
Written for the people who can see something's wrong
A E
Like ants in a colony we do our share
B
But there's so many other fuckin' insects out there
C# A E B
This is just a punk rock song
C#E B G#
(continue w/ lyrics)
Have you visited the quagmire, have you swam in the shit?
C# E B F#
10 million dollars on a losing campaign
C# E B F#
20 million starving and writhing in pain
C# E B F#
Big strong people unwilling to give
C# E B
Small in vision and perspective
One in five kids below the poverty line