Eb5      C5    Eb5  Bb5
Deep inside the border
C5          Bb5
Children are crying
Eb5           F5
Fighting for food
Eb5          F5
Holding their heads
G5           F5        Bb5  Eb5  
Breaking their bread with a stone

All along the roadside

people are standing 

watching the sun

shielding their eyes

Brushing the flies from their face
 

Eb5      F5           Eb5    Ab5
Tell me, what can you say

Tell me, who do you blame

Like a mirror you see yourself

These people each have a name

All around the township

Young men are dying

(of) hunger and thirst

The well has run dry

The tears from her eye feeds her son

Tell me...
 

F5  |  |  Eb5
 
Bb5                       Eb5
You can say you're pulling back
Bb5                      F5
We see the pictures everywhere
Eb5
But what we don't see is what's
         Db5
Going on behind the closed doors
    Ab5             Eb5
And you don't seem to care

Do you expect me to believe you

How can you really think

You can take your horse down to the water

Hold a gun at his head

And make him drink
 

Db5             Ab5    Eb5             Db5
No matter what you say, it never gets any better
No matter what you do, we never see any change

People living without rights
Without their dignity
How loud does one man have to shout 
To earn his right to be free

You can keep your toy soldiers
To segregate the black and white
But when the dust settles
And the blood stops running
How do you sleep at night?

No matter what you say...

What makes you so high and mighty
What makes you so qualified
You can sit there and say
How many have their freedom 
But how many more have died

You decide to sit in judgement
Trying to play God yourself
Someday soon the buck is gonna stop
Stop with you and noone else

No matter...