Where In The World - Have Nots

Ready for your close-up in the wake of the disaster

Callous, condescending claims the network newscaster

That with crimes of compassion correspondents have crossed the line

Hollywood elite and ex-presidents unite

We all wear a somber face for the cameras tonight

It’s only apropos when the bodies are piling high…

What’s in it for us?

is what the world bank asks

When your country’s highest export is our lowest working class

You know it’s not like common welfare is our raison d’etre

You know we could have built those buildings out of real concrete

Could have given them clean water and healthy food to eat

But they looked over the numbers, saw no profit to be made…

But where in the world was the world (before the big one came)

Where in the world was the world (for disease and acid rain)

Where in the world was the world (for the poisoned and the poor)

Yeah where was the world when an ounce of prevention could have saved a pound

of cure?

So we turn a blind eye and the deafest of ears

To the most poverty-stricken country in the western hemisphere

Throwing money at the problem now, too little and too late

Well you can’t blame fault lines for where they’ve fallen

But from a humanist perspective man I find it appalling

That indifference and neglect resigned these souls to their sad fates…

Where was the world before it opened under

Taking what was left of, all that we neglected?

Where was the world before it opened under them?

The Nation of compassion only when the world is watching

Do we take any action, then we rally round' the blood