Walk in a corner shop
See a shoplifting cop
See the old lady with a gun
See the hero try to run
Nothing's what it seems
I mean it's not all dirty
But it's not all clean
There's children paying bills
There's monks buying thrills
There's pride for sale
In magazines
There's pills for rent
To make you clean
Marvin Gaye there's no
Brother brother
Woody Guthrie's land
Can't feed Mother
Mothers weep
Children sleep
So much violence
Ends in silence
It's a shame there's
No one to blame
For all the pain
That life brings
If you will just take me
It might just complete me
And together
We can make a stand
A waitress brings me lunch
We meet but do not touch
On TV D.C. s selling lies
While in the corner
King's dream dies
Go to the counter
Pay for me and my friend
A homeless man
Pulls out a roll
Says it's on him
The mayor has no cash
He said he spent it
On hookers and hash
Mothers weep
Children sleep
So much violence
Ends in silence
It's a shame there's
No one to blame
For all the pain
That life brings
If you will just take me
It might just complete me
And together
We can make a stand
You will love me
I will love you
You will love me
I will love you
Mothers weep
Children sleep
So much violence
Ends in silence
It's a shame there's
No one to blame
For all the pain
That life brings
If you will just take me
It might just complete me
And together
We can make a stand
Mothers weep
Children sleep
So much violence
Ends in silence
It's a shame there's
No one to blame
For all the pain
That life brings
If you will just take me
It might just complete me
And together
We can make a stand
Mothers weep
Children sleep
So much violence
Ends in silence
It's a shame there's
No one to blame
For all the pain
That life brings