Another simple mind
Working 9 to 5
Seven days a week
Barely making ends meet
Working paycheck to paycheck
Just to pay the rent
Money saved
Is already money spent
Facing a fallen nation
Where poverty is on the rise
Violence and racial hatred
Make way to a million lies
Too many kids are slayed
To lie in early graves
Put down by gun shots
And outlined in white chalk
The nation turns its back
And it don't see
They're wiping away
All their bad memories
Facing a fallen nation
Where poverty is on the rise
Violence and racial hatred
Make way to a million lies
Another battered mom
And we let this go on
When will see
Something is very wrong?
But we close our eyes
And we all pretend
That somehow all of this
All of this will just end
Facing a fallen nation
Where poverty is on the rise
Violence and racial hatred
Make way to a million lies