Last night while I slept sound Something was going down News hit like falling rain Wake up, it’s happening again Thousands of miles away In a place I didn’t think about until today It’s war or a flood and we can’t know what it means But it fits real well on our TV screens so//
Give us the body count We want to know how much to care Give us the body count We want to know how lucky we are To not be there To not be there//
Sometimes I let it in Sometimes I wonder what it feels like to be them But most times I think of me Out of sight, out of mind, works conveniently Besides what’s one person to do My sympathy won’t make what’s done, untrue Disaster’s just a word it’s not real ’Till it pains you and it claims you And it forces you to feel//
We want to know how much to care Give us the body count We want to know how lucky we are To not be there To not be there//
And another one fell from the sky Another one got buried in the blink of an eye Just when you think it’s over there’s more This global voyeurism’s getting hard to ignore And the closer it gets to home The less you can dismiss it with hearts of stone I don’t know their names, you see Oh, when they go they take a little piece of me yeah
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