Have you been to the desert
Have you walked with the dead
There's a hundred thousand children
being killed for their bread
And the figures don't lie
they speak of human disease
But we do what we want
and we think what we please
Have you lived the experience
Have you witnessed the plague
People making babies
sometimes just to escape
In this land of competition
the compassion is gone
Yet we ignore the needy
and we keep pushing on
Keep pushing on
This is just a punk rock song
Written for the people
who can see
something's wrong
Like ants in a colony
we do our share
but there's so many
other fuckin'
insects out there
and this is just a
punk rock song
Have you visited the quagmire
Have you swam in the shit
The party convention and
the real politic
The faces always different
the rhetoric the same
But we swallow it all
and we see nothing change
Nothing has changed
This is just a punk rock song
Written for the people
who can see something's wrong
Like workers in
a factory we do our share
but there's so many other
fuckin' robots out there
and this is just a
punk rock song
Ten million dollars on
a losing campaign
Twenty million starving
and writhing in pain
Big strong people
unwilling to give
Small in vision
and perspective
One in five kids below
the poverty line
One population runnin'
out of time
Runnin' out of time
This is just a punk rock song
Written for the people
who can see
something's wrong
Like ants in a colony
we do our share
but there's so many
other fuckin'
insects out there
and this is just a
punk rock
These figures don't lie
they speak of human disease
but we do what we want
and we think what
we please
One in five kids below
the poverty line
One population runnin'
out of time
This is just a punk rock song
This is just a punk rock song
This is just a
punk rock song