Poverty

Tell me, what does it get us?

Will we survive in a world of lies

When everyone's gone

Will we ever live in the cities

When we never learned to read

I don't think that I can hold you

Without pain

I wouldn't let them frame you

I've seen enough

Tell me what it feels

To be left in poverty

All these problems

How do we set 'em up

In Poverty

This is the key to peace my mind

I've got to get away from all this suffering

And all this poverty,

What can I do?

Oh, I don't want to be in poverty!

I've got to stand together

I've got to fight together

And we'll make things right for one another

Why can't I turn away?

And start a fight today?

Why can't I turn away?

And say that we'll save the best for other guys

When poverty is clear, everywhere I go

They look for someone who's in control

A nation of millions on streets

Is there no place for a smile so hard to see

I think somewhere inside this cold heart city

There's a big, rising sun.

Poverty fills the lead,

Poverty fills the heart,

Nothing else matters at all

What are these people still sleepin' in the city?

The streets are filled with sin,

Nothing else matters at all

I don't want to be in poverty