Eb      Cm7    Eb/Bb  Bb
Deep inside the border
Cm7          Bb/Db
Children are crying
Eb           Fm
Fighting for food
Eb/G          Fm7
Holding their heads
Gm           Fm        Bb7  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
 

Eb      Fm7           Eb    Ab
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...
 

Fm/Eb  |  |  Eb
 
Bbm7                       Eb
You can say you're pulling back
Bbm7                      Fm
We see the pictures everywhere
Eb
But what we don't see is what's
         Db/Eb
Going on behind the closed doors
    Ab/Eb             Eb
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
 

Db/Eb             Ab/Eb    Eb             Db/Ab
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...