E5 E5 E5 E5 B5 B5 B5 G5 A5 G5 E5 E5 E5 E5 Mothers crying in the street, children dying at their feet B5 B5 B5 G5 A5 G5 Tell me why, oh, tell me why E5 E5 E5 E5 People starving everywhere, there's too much food but there's none to spare B5 B5 B5 G5 A5 G5 Tell me why, oh, tell me why B5 D5 G5 B5 D5 G5 Can you see that shaft of sunlight? Can you see it in my eyes? D5 A5 G5 D5 A5 G5 I can feel the fire that's burning, anger and hope so deep E5 E5 E5 D5 D5 D5 So deep within my heart but before my eyes G5 A5 A5 A5 A5 Oh, for some it's too late 'cause it seems there's no-one listening E5 E5 E5 E5 People sleeping in the streets, no roof above, no food to eat B5 B5 B5 G5 A5 G5 Tell me why, oh, tell me why E5 E5 E5 E5 See the questions in their eyes, listen to their children's cries B5 B5 B5 G5 A5 G5 Tell me why, please tell me why B5 D5 G5 B5 D5 G5 If there's a God, is He watching? Can he give a ray of light? D5 A5 G5 D5 A5 G5 So much pain and so much sorrow, tell me what does He see E5 E5 E5 D5 D5 D5 When He looks at you? When He looks at me? G5 A5 A5 A5 A5 G5 What would He say? It seems there's no-one listening D5 G5 C5 G5 D5 C5 G5 D5 G5 Who would think it still could happen even in this time and place? D5 C5 G5 Politicians, they may save themselves B5 A5 C5 Ah, but they won't save their face A5 A5 So hope against hope, it's not too late E5 E5 E5 E5 B5 B5 B5 G5 A5 G5 E5 E5 You say there's nothing you can do E5 E5 Is there one rule for them and one for you? B5 B5 B5 G5 A5 G5 Tell me why, just tell me why B5 D5 G5 B5 D5 G5 Listen, can you see that shaft of sunlight? Can you see it in my eyes? D5 A5 G5 D5 A5 G5 I can feel the fire that's burning, anger and hope so deep E5 E5 E5 D5 D5 D5 So deep within my heart but before my eyes G5 A5 A5 A5 A5 Oh, for some it's too late 'cause it seems there's no-one listening E5 E5 E5 E5 B5 B5 B5 G5 A5 G5 "Hurry for me, hurry for me and hurry for me, hurry for me", they cry, they cry E5 E5 E5 E5 B5 B5 B5 G5 A5 G5 "Hurry for me, hurry for me and hurry for me, hurry for me", they cry, they cry E5 E5 E5 E5 B5 B5 B5 G5 A5 G5 "Hurry for me, hurry for me and hurry for me, hurry for me", they cry, they cry E5 E5 "Hurry for me, hurry for me" Em6: 022020 A6: 002222 Am9: 575557 Am6: 575755