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"Guilty" c.2007 K.Murray

 

you say we're moving forward from your comfy chair

well its easy when your sitting to suggest that you care

but our priveliged perspectives all our points and views

we're not helping anybody just by catching the news

i might be preaching and

its not sunday

i may talk like a fool

i may be      stating the obvious

i may be sounding uncool

 

but while we walk in golden sunlight and we bathe amongst its rays

we pretend we're Gods good people  and we can wash all sins away

when we witness distant cruelties we all live on elsewhere street

but when all our neighbours kids lie hungry pleading at our feet

will we hear at all

tell me will we hear them them at all

brothers can you hear them at all

sisters do you hear them at all

 

We see fat cats getting fatter we see nations collide

we watch like dumb spectators  on a fairground ride

we see poverty's abundance  growing fast in daylight

we learn to shut our eyes and sleep sound through the night

we

we watch movies

while mothers watch their kids starve

we are guilty one and all we are

if we go quietly when we should be getting louder

we are guilty

 

When you look upon your kingdom and you watch your children play

well its easy to believe its home where charity should stay

but i